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1. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   360 Degrees of Text: Using Poetry to Teach Close Reading and Powerful Writing
   Through Eileen Murphy Buckley’s 360-degree approach to teaching critical literacy, students investigate texts through a full spectrum of learning modalities, harnessing the excitement of performance, imitation, creative writing, and argument/debate activities to become more powerful thinkers, readers, and writers.
   
2. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Game & Tool
   ABC Match
   The ABC Match game challenges children to match letter cards and picture cards that begin with that letter.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Student Interactive  |  Learning About Language
   ABC Match
   ABC Match is a game that has students practice letter-recognition fluency while honing their memories. Students match initial letters with pictures, playing either with a timer or without.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A “Brief, Urgent Message”: Theme in Slaughterhouse-Five
   As a culminating activity for Slaughterhouse-Five, students make a compilation album (a CD with 6-8 tracks) that reflects their analysis, understanding, and reaction to the ideas in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
5. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
   A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways to Support Teachers in Meeting Students’ Needs
   This document provides a research-based resource that acknowledges the complexities of reading as a developmental process and addresses the needs of secondary readers and their teachers.
6. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Accent on Meter: A Handbook for Readers of Poetry
   Accent on meter: A Handbook for Readers of Poetry offers practical ways of teaching students about the close connections between the meaning, rhythm, and meter in poetry.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Acquiring New Vocabulary Through Book Discussion Groups
   This lesson employs direct instruction and small-group discussion to help students learn new vocabulary skills while reading Patricia Polacco’s Pink and Say.
8. 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.
9. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Acting Out: Literature, Drama, and Connecting With History
   The article includes recommendations for teachers interested in integrating literature, drama, and history.
10. 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.

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