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1. Professional Development | Grades   K – 6  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Acting Out: Literature, Drama, and Connecting With History
   This article describes a successful teacher-professor collaboration to plan interdisciplinary curriculum and team-teach it in a first-grade classroom.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 7
   Celebrate International Literacy Day!
   Students spend the day participating in a readathon, kicking off a cross-grade reading buddy program, or making original books to share with community members.
3. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Strategy Guide
   Choral Reading
   During choral reading, students read together orally. Repeated, supported reading helps students read with greater expression and read unfamiliar words with greater ease.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Improving Fluency through Group Literary Performance
   Students participate in shared reading, choral reading, and readers theater, using books by Bill Martin, Jr. Repeated readings and literary performances help students with their reading accuracy, expression, and rate.
5. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Strategy Guide
   Performing Poetry
   Performing poetry incorporates oral reading, literature, and the performing arts. This strategy can benefit content area readers, English language learners, or learners with special needs.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Rain, Ice, Steam: Using Reading to Support Inquiry About the Water Cycle
   Water is always moving in a continuous cycle from liquid to solid to gas and back again. Students study this never-ending cycle through shared readings, center activities, and experiments.
7. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
   In this strategy guide, you will learn how to organize students and classroom topics to encourage a high degree of classroom participation and assist students in developing a conceptual understanding of a topic through the use of the Think-Pair-Share technique.