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Each week, I publish a post containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here.

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Here are this week’s picks:

Before, During and After: Strategies From Our News Q’s Feature for Reading Nonfiction is from The New York Times Learning Network. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On “Close Reading” — Help Me Find More.

Teaching Democracy: A Hands-On Exercise (Tara Kini) is from Larry Cuban’s blog. I’m adding it to The Best Teacher Resource Sites For Social Justice Issues.

I’m adding these next two posts to The Best Posts On Writing Instruction:

Infusing Information Writing Throughout the Day: Diving Into Information Writing is from Two Writing Teachers.

Hochman’s ‘But, Because, So’ Sentence Expansion Activity is from Doug Lemov.