Use this chart to combine the texts you teach with the strategies you feel could particularly help your students.  This might be a tool you use to brainstorm possibilities now and return to later to fine-tune your instruction. This will give you a 10,000-foot view. 

Get started using what you’ve learned in this course to make plans for the texts in YOUR classroom!

Create a Text Guide for a nonfiction text you use in your classroom. This should be designed for your use, but also for other teachers who could teach the same text in their course. 

This should be a standalone text – an article or a primary source text rather than a whole textbook. 

Here is the text guide template to use. And here is an example of a text guide created about the primary source text Paul Revere Deposition of Midnight Ride, 1775. 

When you’re ready, this rubric can help you evaluate your work.