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        <title><![CDATA[2013 NCTE Annual Convention]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Join NCTE in Boston this November for the 103rd NCTE Annual Convention.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tracking and Supporting Student Learning with Kidwatching]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[In this strategy guide, you’ll learn how to use kidwatching to track and support student learning. Teachers observe and take notes on students’ understanding of skills and concepts and then use the observations to determine effective strategies for future instruction.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Traci Gardner</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[2013 WLU Summer Institute]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Register now for the 2013 Literacies for All Summer Institute, “Authentic Literacy Events and Social Actions Celebrating Relationships and Partnerships,” July 18-20 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Introducing Ideas and Vocabulary with the Concept Sort]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A Concept Sort is a vocabulary and comprehension strategy used with students to introduce new topics and/or familiarize students with new vocabulary.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Cathy Allen Simon</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Using Partner Talk to Strengthen Student Collaboration and Understanding]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[In this strategy guide, you’ll learn about Partner Talk—a way to provide students with another learning opportunity to make learning their own through collaboration and discussion.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Cathy Allen Simon</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Developing Persuasive Writing Strategies]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This strategy guide describes the techniques used in effective persuasive writing and shares activities you can use to help students understand and use persuasion in their writing and critical thinking.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Traci Gardner</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Using Paired Reading to Increase Fluency and Peer Cooperation]]></title>

        <link>http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/strategy-guides/using-paired-reading-increase-30952.html</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[In this strategy, students read aloud to each other, pairing more fluent readers with less fluent readers.  This strategy can also be used to pair older students with younger students to create “reading buddies.”]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Cathy Allen Simon</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Using Formative Reading Assessment to Enhance Content Area Learning]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Drawing on the work in his 2012 NCTE book Beyond Standardized Truth: Improving Teaching and Learning through Inquiry-Based Reading Assessment, Scott Filkins shares practical tools to gather information about students as readers and instructional responses that promote increased understanding of subject matter.  ]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Scott Filkins</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Literacy in Learning Exchange]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Use the Literacy in Learning Exchange website to build or further develop a community of practice in your school. ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Written with the Common Core State Standards firmly in mind, this book presents a much-needed instructional model for disciplinary literacy. ]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Doug Buehl</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Meeting the Demands of the Common Core: Mentoring Readers of Science and Technical Texts]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Discover why integrating literacy practices into the flow of regular disciplinary instruction is integral to 21st-century learners. ]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Doug Buehl</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[eVoc Strategies: 10 Ways to Use Technology to Build Vocabulary]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Drawing on research-based principles of vocabulary instruction and multimedia learning, this article presents 10 eVoc strategies that use free digital tools and Internet resources to evoke students' engaged vocabulary learning.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Bridget Dalton, Dana L. Grisham</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Exploring the Use of the iPad for Literacy Learning]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The goal of this investigation was to explore how a fourth grade teacher could integrate iPads into her literacy instruction to simultaneously teach print-based and digital literacy goals. ]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Amy Hutchison, Beth Beschorner, Denise Schmidt-Crawford</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Beyond Standardized Truth: Improving Teaching and Learning through Inquiry-Based Reading Assessment]]></title>

        <link>http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/professional-library/beyond-standardized-truth-improving-30931.html</link>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Scott Filkins brings us into his and colleagues' classrooms to demonstrate how high school teachers across the disciplines can engage in inquiry-based reading assessment to support student learning. This book is part of the NCTE Principles in Practice imprint.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Scott Filkins</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Community Mapping]]></title>

        <link>http://www.ncte.org/seminars/comm_mapping</link>
        <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This Web seminar will examine Community Mapping as a practice designed to uncover a rich array of resources in households and communities that hold the potential to enhance literacy learning for children while developing reciprocal relationship with families. ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards: English Language Arts, Grades PreK-2]]></title>

        <link>http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/professional-library/supporting-students-time-core-30905.html</link>
        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This book provides insights and resources for teachers, administrators, and policymakers working with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) by championing a critical perspective and teaching that promote students’ development as competent and critical problem solvers. ]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Susi Long, William Hutchinson, Justine Neiderhiser</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards: English Language Arts, Grades 3-5]]></title>

        <link>http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/professional-library/supporting-students-time-core-a-30906.html</link>
        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This practical, supportive book begins with an overview of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), addressing some frequently asked questions and concerns about them. Then, the heart of the book features vignettes of six grade 3–5 classroom teachers from a diverse range of schools, sharing their innovative lesson ideas and showing how they address the CCSS in concert with the deliberate, student-centered teaching and learning choices they already make.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Jeff Williams, Elizabeth Homan, Sarah Swofford</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards: English Language Arts, Grades 6-8]]></title>

        <link>http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/professional-library/supporting-students-time-core-b-30907.html</link>
        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This book takes you into the classrooms of middle school and junior high teachers who are meeting the demands of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) while staying true to their students and to their own knowledge of what constitutes effective, student-centered teaching.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Tonya Perry, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards: English Language Arts, Grades 9-12]]></title>

        <link>http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/professional-library/supporting-students-time-core-c-30908.html</link>
        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This book reinforces a focus on student learning by demonstrating ways of addressing the Common Core State Standards in grades 9-12 while also adhering to NCTE principles of effective teaching.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Sarah Brown Wessling</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Differentiating Instruction Using the Chunk, Chew, and Check Framework – It’s How the Brain Learns Best!]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[In this Web seminar you will learn to avoid “Random Acts of Differentiating” by designing lessons around a practical framework that clearly defines where to effectively differentiate in your lesson:  Chunk (Input), Chew (Process) and Check (Output).]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Kathleen Kryza</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Text Complexity and Close Reading]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[To really teach a text well, and to develop students' habits for tackling texts, teachers have to understand what factors contribute to text complexity.  We will discuss each of these factors and determine ways that teachers can develop close reading lessons to build students' skills.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Using Popular Culture & The Media to Teach 21st Century Media Literacy Skills]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The media remains a dominant force in the lives of today’s students, yet the 21st century classroom still gives media a backseat to print.  NCTE consultant Frank W. Baker examines standards that include media and offers recommendations for engaging students with popular culture and the media.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Frank Baker</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Get Connected: Technology and Common Core Standards]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[There are many resources that can support your planning for integration of technology into your classes.  This web seminar will focus on some basic and essential tools for instruction that develop literacy skills and meet the expectations articulated in the Common Core State Standards.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Katherine McKnight</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Representing Close Reading in Academic Writing]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This Web seminar introduces and describes close reading as well as various strategies for engaging readers in the practice of representing these close readings in academic writing across disciplines.  ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Supporting Adolescent Readers through Classroom-based Assessment]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This Web seminar will help participants re-imagine assessment as a tool for creating better mental constructs of their students as readers and learners and, consequently, as a valuable means of guiding day-to-day instruction. ]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Scott Filkins</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[To Kill a Mockingbird - Teaching The Film: Helping Students Appreciate the Language of the Moving]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Teaching film techniques (lighting, symbolism, sound, camera angles) is part of the new Common Core ELA Standards. Join film and media educator Frank W. Baker, an NCTE consultant, for this new look at engaging students in film education]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Frank Baker</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Using Informational Texts with English Language Learners]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Join Mary Cappellini for an informative look at how elementary teachers can help ELLs improve reading comprehension through the use of informational texts. ]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Mary Cappellini</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Literacy and Leadership Institute With Regie Routman and Colleagues]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Join Regie Routman and colleagues for two days of intimate and intelligent professional development guaranteed to positively influence whole-school effectiveness, efficiency, and enjoyment!]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Speak to Me: Teaching with Voki]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Through Voki, a Web 2.0 tool, students create customizable avatars for class presentations for various purposes, such as presenting biographical information, expressing an opinion, or reading a poem.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Kathy Wickline</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Using Animoto, a free Web 2.0 tool, students can develop short digital videos that include music, photos, video clips, and text as well as share their creations electronically.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Kathy Wickline</dc:creator>
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