Set high expectations and provide scaffolds to help students meet their goals.
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Have unannounced quizzes.
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Provide class time for aesthetic reading and encourage it inside and outside the school.
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shark
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Grade everything.
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Limit instruction to one learning style.
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Promote wide reading and discuss differences(e.g., text structure, purpose, organization) between aesthetic (live through the text) and efferent (carries information from text) reading.
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Create opportunities for students to participate in large- and small-group discussions, and choose with whom, and how, they would like to share their thoughts and reflections.
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Make sure everyone knows each other in your classroom by names. This is particularly difficult but absolutely essential in the secondary classroom.
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Lack resources
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Draw negative attention to student's culture or langugae.