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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   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   3-2-1 Vocabulary: Learning Filmmaking Vocabulary by Making Films
   Bring the vocabulary of film to life through the processes of filmmaking. Students learn terminology and techniques simultaneously as they plan, film, and edit a short video.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   ABC Bookmaking Builds Vocabulary in the Content Areas
   V is for vocabulary. A content area unit provides the theme for a specialized ABC book, as students select, research, define, and illustrate a word for each alphabet letter.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Action Is Character: Exploring Character Traits with Adjectives
   Students must "become" a character in a novel in order to describe themselves and other characters using powerful adjectives.
   
5. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Addressing the Complexity of Matching Readers With Text
   Join Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp as they discuss ways to navigate the complexity of matching readers with text.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Organizing & Summarizing
   Alphabet Organizer
   Students can use this online tool to print an alphabet chart or pages for an alphabet book.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   A Portrait of Our World: Making Connections and Developing Comprehension
   Students engage in carousel walks, character analyses, global explorations, and genre studies while using valuable language arts strategies to build higher-level comprehension skills.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Prereading Strategy: Using the Vocabulary, Language, Prediction (VLP) Approach
   Students learn content area vocabulary and increase reading comprehension using the Vocabulary, Language, Prediction (VLP) approach.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Astronomy Poetry: Combining Poetry With the Content Areas
   Students’ responses to this lesson will be out of this world after they’ve researched astronomy to write poetry and compile a poetry book.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Avalanche, Aztek, or Bravada? A Connotation Minilesson
    Students examine familiar car names for underlying connotations then proceed through a series of steps, increasing their control over language, until they select words with powerful connotations in their own writing.

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