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1. Professional Development | November 21–24, 2013
   2013 NCTE Annual Convention
   Join NCTE in Boston this November for the 103rd NCTE Annual Convention.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Family Message Journals Teach Many Purposes for Writing
   This lesson encourages children to explore authentic reasons for writing by writing messages to their family in a family message journal.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Getting the ig in Pig: Helping Children Discover Onset and Rime
   Students will need their language-building hard hats as they construct words using onset and rime, building vocabulary and phonics comprehension.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Phonic Generalizations in Chrysanthemum
   Students learn about word families by reading Kevin Henkes’s book Chrysanthemum, identifying words with certain vowel pair endings, and reading words with similar endings.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading
   Teach your students about sentence structure, rhyming words, sight words, vocabulary, and print concepts using a weekly poem.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Sentence Quest: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences
   Students learn about sentences by listing verbs, nouns, and adjectives. They use word cards to create descriptive sentences and work in groups to create the longest sentences they can.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Spelling Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
   "2-4-6-8, students will be spelling great" in this lesson that teaches the y rule for adding suffixes through cheering the spelling of words aloud, word sorts, and writing stories.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using a Predictable Text to Teach High-Frequency Words
   After reading an engaging yet predictable text about a child looking for his cat, students use a similar format and high-frequency words to craft tales about their own lost pets.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Weekend News! A Weekly Writing Activity
   On Monday mornings, you’re likely to be asked, “What did you do this weekend?” In this lesson, students respond to this question in a self-assessed writing assignment about their weekend adventures.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Whole-to-Parts Phonics Instruction: Teaching Letter-Sound Correspondences
    Students will find that learning onset and rime is a handy skill when they read the Jack and Jill rhyme.

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