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Show & Tell / Literacy Tasks to Elevate Thinking

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Watch how a high school teacher presents an intellectually rigorous literacy task designed to deepen students’ learning. To learn more, read Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey's column, "Transforming Literacy Tasks to Deepen Learning" in the December 2023 / January 2024 issue of EL magazine.

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