Literacy Toolbox
Reference Guides
- Academic Discussion Reference Guide
- Annotating and Note-Taking Reference Guide
- Argument Reference Guide
- Assessing Sources Reference Guide
- Avoiding Plagiarism Reference Guide
- Characterization Reference Guide
- Claims Reference Guide
- Connecting Ideas Reference Guide
- Conventions Reference Guide
- Integrating Quotations Reference Guide
- Irony Reference Guide
- Literacy Toolbox Reference Guide
- Mood Reference Guide
- Narratives Reference Guide
- Organization Reference Guide
- Questioning Reference Guide
- Style Reference Guide
- Symbolism and Motifs Reference Guide
- Theme Reference Guide
- Tone Reference Guide
Tools
- Act 1 Notice and Wonder Note-Taking Tool
- Act 2 Notice and Wonder Note-Taking Tool
- Analyzing Primary and Secondary Sources Tool
- Analyzing Relationships Tool
- Anticipation Guide
- Application Unit Potential Topics Tool
- Attending to Details Tool
- Author Craft Note-Taking Tool
- Burr-Hamilton Note-Taking Tool
- Central Ideas of Songs Note-Taking Tool
- Central Research Question Checklist
- Character Argument Note-Taking Tool
- Character Note-Taking Tool
- Comparison Organizational Frame
- Culminating Task Progress Tracker
- Delineating Arguments Tool
- Discussion Leader Note-Taking Tool
- Discussion Tool
- Ethical Approach Note-Taking Tool
- Evaluating Arguments Tool
- Evaluating Ideas Tool
- Exploring a Topic Tool
- Extending Understanding Tool
- Forming Evidence-Based Claims Tool
- Group Discussion Checklist
- Internal and External Factors Organizer
- Mentor Sentence Journal
- Organizing Evidence Tool
- Peer Review Culminating Task Checklist
- Peer Review Tool
- Potential Sources Tool
- Research Evaluation Checklist
- Research Frame Tool
- Research Note-Taking Tool
- Sample Objective Summary
- Schuyler-Hamilton Note-Taking Tool
- Section 3 Diagnostic Delineating Arguments Tool
- Significant Passage Locator Note-Taking Tool
- Song Lyrics Action Plan Tool
- Storyboard Planning Tool
- Summarizing Text Tool
- Video Note-Taking Tool
- Vocabulary Journal
- Vocabulary in Context Tool
- Washington-Hamilton Note-Taking Tool
- Word Map
- Word Sort - Closed
- Word Sort - Open
- Working with Mentor Sentences Tool
Tool Exemplars
- Analyzing Relationships Tool: Exemplar for Informational Texts JFK
- Analyzing Relationships Tool: Exemplar for Literary Texts Kindness
- Anticipation Guide: Exemplar
- Attending to Details Tool: Exemplar for Informational Text JFK
- Attending to Details Tool: Exemplar for Literary Text Kindness
- Character Note-Taking Tool: Exemplar
- Closed Word Sort: Exemplar
- Comparison Organizational Frame: Exemplar
- Delineating Arguments Tool: Exemplar Anthony
- Discussion Tool: Exemplar
- Evaluating Arguments Tool: Exemplar Anthony
- Evaluating Ideas Tool: Exemplar for Informational Text JFK
- Evaluating Ideas Tool: Exemplar for Literary Text Kindness
- Exploring a Topic Tool: Exemplar
- Extending Understanding Tool: Exemplar for Informational Text JFK-Reagan
- Extending Understanding Tool: Exemplar for Literary Text Kindness
- Forming Evidence-Based Claims Tool: Exemplar for Informational Text JFK
- Forming Evidence-Based Claims Tool: Exemplar for Literary Text Kindness
- Mentor Sentence Journal: Exemplar JFK
- Open Word Sort: Exemplar
- Organizing Evidence Tool: Exemplar JFK
- Potential Sources Tool: Exemplar
- Research Frame Tool: Exemplar
- Research Note-Taking Tool: Exemplar
- Ronald Reagan, Remarks on East-West Relations at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin(1987)
- Summarizing Text Tool: Exemplar Anthony
- Susan B. Anthony, Is It a Crime for a U.S. Citizen to Vote?
- Video Note-Taking Tool: Exemplar
- Visual Analysis Tool: Exemplar Migrant Mother
- Vocabulary Journal: Exemplar (JFK)
- Vocabulary in Context Tool: Exemplar (JFK)
- Word Map: Exemplar
- Working with Mentor Sentences Tool: Exemplar JFK
Spanish Tools
- Herramienta para ampliar la comprensión
- Herramienta para analizar relaciones
- Herramienta para delinear los argumentos
- Herramienta para evaluar las ideas
- Herramienta para evaluar los argumentos
- Herramienta para formular afirmaciones basadas en la evidencia
- Herramienta para organizar la evidencia
- Herramienta para prestar atención a los detalles
- Herramienta para tomar notas acerca de los personajes
- Herramienta para trabajar con oraciones guía
- Spanish Tools Crosswalk