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1. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   3 Strategies for Reaching Language Learners in Literacy Workshops
   Ideas will be explored and explained that you can use tomorrow to strengthen your instruction of language learners in your classroom.
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
   In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exchanging Ideas by Sharing Journals: Interactive Response in the Classroom
   Pairs of students respond to literature alternately in shared journals. Mini-lessons are presented on responding to prompts, creating dialogue, adding drawings, and asking and answering questions.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Compare and Contrast Structure in Expository Texts
   Students build their understanding of the terms compare and contrast by participating in class discussions, using Internet resources, working collaboratively, and by visually representing information in a Venn diagram.
6. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Strategy Guide
   Introducing Ideas and Vocabulary with the Concept Sort
   A Concept Sort is a vocabulary and comprehension strategy used with students to introduce new topics and/or familiarize students with new vocabulary.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Multipurpose Poetry: Introducing Science Concepts and Increasing Fluency
   Creepy crawlers, hoppers, and fliers are the focus of this lesson in which students chorally read poems about insects and use the Internet to locate facts about their assigned insects.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Q is for Duck: Using Alphabet Books With Struggling Writers
   A is for zoo? Q is for duck? The alphabet as students know it is transformed when students create a class book that contains clever associations for each letter of the alphabet.
9. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
   Second-Language Literacy Instruction
   This position statement offers recommendations on ways to support second-language learners.
10. Professional Development | Grades   K – 6  |  Strategy Guide
    Using Paired Reading to Increase Fluency and Peer Cooperation
    In this strategy, students read aloud to each other, pairing more fluent readers with less fluent readers. This strategy can also be used to pair older students with younger students to create “reading buddies.”

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