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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
   A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry
   Children find favorite words, phrases, and sentences from familiar stories. Working together, they combine their words and phrases to create a poem. The poem is then shared as performance poetry.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   A Journal for Corduroy: Responding to Literature
   Connect home and school, literature and life, as students take a storybook character home with them and take turns writing stories about his visit.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Buddy Biographies: Intermediate and Primary Students Working Together
   Students create a personalized biography for their reading buddy, and each child is the author, illustrator, and editor.
5. Professional Development | Grade   K  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Building a Foundation for Preschool Literacy: Effective Instruction for Children’s Reading and Writing Development (Second Edition)
   This book focuses on best practices for providing preschoolers with early literacy instruction.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Combining Read-Alouds With Economics in the Primary Grades
   Students learn that what you read in books can really add up when they analyze literary texts for economic concepts.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Connect With Low-Literate Families: A Three-Tiered Approach
   Parents and caregivers take a page from the teacher’s book when they listen to students’ take-home poems or stories and discuss the ideas within.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creating a Class Pattern Book With Popular Culture Characters
   Students hit the hallways with their favorite pop culture characters in this lesson to photograph the characters in various situations and then write about the pictures in a pattern-book structure.
   
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 1  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Draw a Story: Stepping from Pictures to Writing
   Students draw a series of pictures that tell a story, including character action, problem and solution. They ‘read’ their story to others, transcribe it into writing, and create an accordion book.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm
    Students often believe that fiction writers make everything up, seldom realizing how research worms its way into entertaining writing. In this lesson, students read Diary of a Worm to find out how fact merges with fiction.

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