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1. Professional Development | November 21–24, 2018
   2019 NCTE Annual Convention
   Next fall, when we come together in Baltimore, let’s inquire together. Let’s dare to wonder, to be bold and creative in our curiosity. Let’s reawaken our own spirit of inquiry as teachers, leaders, writers, readers, and thinkers.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Analyzing Grammar Pet Peeves
   By analyzing Dear Abby's "rant" about bad grammar usage, students become aware that attitudes about race, social class, moral and ethical character, and "proper" language use are intertwined.
3. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar Instruction
   Kenneth Lindblom and Patricia A. Dunn teach language awareness and use through published complaints about the teaching of grammar. Students are able to recognize issues of race and class that determine acceptable usage and learn the importance of audience in their own language use.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   And I Quote: A Punctuation Proofreading Minilesson
   Students review the basic conventions for using quotations from literature or references from a research project, focusing on accurate punctuation and page layout, then apply the conventions to their texts.
5. 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.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Breaking the Rules with Sentence Fragments
   Though teachers usually caution students against using sentence fragments, Edgar Schuster's work demonstrates that professional writers often use fragments effectively. This lesson helps students understand that there are reasons that they can and should use sentence fragments to become effective writers.
7. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Bringing Grammar to Life
   Seamlessly integrate grammar instruction into your entire language arts curriculum.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Choosing the Best Verb: An Active and Passive Voice Minilesson
   Students explore how active and passive voices are appropriate to different audiences. They examine online resources, and then draw conclusions about verb use, which they apply to their own writing.
9. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Game & Tool
   Diamante Poems
   Diamante poems are poems where the longest line comes in the middle, creating a diamond-like shape. The Diamante Poems tool helps children write these patterned poems.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    From Quantitative to Qualitative: Writing Descriptions of Data From Tables
    Students develop quantitative reasoning and critical thinking by analyzing descriptions tables for content, language, and organization with a particular focus on verb tense selection, and then writing descriptions of tables themselves.
    

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