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1. Professional Development | November 20–23, 2014
   2014 NCTE Annual Convention
   The 2014 NCTE Annual Convention is an opportunity to take back the right to tell our stories, to create our own landscapes, and to “talk story” with each other.
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Organizing & Summarizing
   Alphabet Organizer
   Students use this online tool to create an alphabet chart or pages for an alphabet book.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns
   Students engage in a brief writing assignment that concretely illustrates how language and gender stereotyping interact causally.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective
   Students "become" one of the major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using lists of accurate, powerful adjectives.
6. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Brainstorming and Reviewing Using the Carousel Strategy
   This strategy guide introduces Carousel Brainstorming, also known as Rotating Review, and offers suggestions to implement this technique in your classroom for brainstorming about new topics or reviewing learned information.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English Dictionary
   Students become novice lexicographers as they explore recent new entries to the dictionary, learn the process of writing entries for the Oxford English Dictionary, and write a new entry themselves.
8. Professional Development | Grades   K – 11  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Building Academic Language to Deepen Comprehension and Learning
   Join NCTE for the web seminar "Learning Words Inside and Out" hosted by Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan
   Choose, Select, Opt, or Settle: Exploring Word Choice in Poetry
   Students investigate the effects of word choice in Robert Frost’s “Choose Something Like a Star” to construct a more sophisticated understanding of speaker, subject, and tone.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Printout  |  Informational Sheet
    Common Content Area Roots and Affixes
    This printout offers 50 or so common roots, prefixes, and affixes that give students access to hundreds of key concepts across the content areas.

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