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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   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Bad Case of Bullying: Using Literature Response Groups
   Students learn how to effectively deal with bullying by participating in literature response groups and writing about when they experienced a similar situation or emotion as a fictional character.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing Poetry
   Acrostic Poems
   This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.
4. 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.
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   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Genre Study of Letters With The Jolly Postman
   Students read The Jolly Postman, in which a postman delivers letters to storybook characters. They explore different types of mail and categorize letters from the book and their own mail.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   American Folklore: A Jigsaw Character Study
   Groups of students read and discuss American folklore stories, each group reading a different story. Using a jigsaw strategy, the groups compare character traits and main plot points of the stories. A diverse selection of American folk tales is used for this lesson, which is adaptable to any text set.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Musical Prompt: Postcards From the Concert
   Students won’t miss a beat in this musical lesson that combines listening with personal response on a postcard.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 5
   Annual fence-painting contests take place in Hannibal, Missouri.
   A scene from one of Twain's works is chosen and students map the story setting using the Story Map. Setting is then discussed as a class.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    A Race With Grace: Sports Poetry in Motion
    In this lesson, athletics, aesthetics, and poetics intersect in new ways as developing literacy learners experiment together with the forms of language.

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