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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. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Beyond Reading and Writing: Inquiry, Curriculum, and Multiple Ways of Knowing
   The authors offer theory-into-practice techniques, insight into how such a curriculum actually worked on a day-to-day basis, suggestions on how educators can better support and understand their students, and, insights the authors gained by undertaking this inquiry.
3. 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.
4. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Children's Inquiry: Using Language to Make Sense of the World
   Lindfors introduces a theoretical framework for understanding children's inquiry language—as communication acts in which the child brings another into the act of sense-making—and uncovers new possibilities for our understanding of how children learn.
5. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
   Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
   This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use.
6. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Code-Switching: Teaching Standard English in Urban Classrooms
   Wheeler and Swords show K–6 teachers how to use code-switching and contrastive analysis to help students use prior knowledge to translate vernacular English into Standard English.
7. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Codeswitching: Tools of Language and Culture Transform the Dialectally Diverse Classroom
   This article shows how to affirm and draw on the dialect diversity of students to foster the learning of Standard English.
8. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning
   This book helps educators unlock Internet and digital media resources to classrooms while respecting the rights of copyright holders.
9. Professional Development | Grades   K – 3  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Creating Strategic Readers: Techniques for Developing Competency in Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension
   Organized around the five essential components of reading instruction, this text lays the groundwork for a comprehensive literacy classroom.
10. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Different Texts, Different Emergent Writing Forms
    Examines young children's ability to vary the forms of emergent writing as they wrote a story, a shopping list, and a letter to a friend at three different times during the school year. Finds that children apply their emergent knowledge about written language differently. Indicates a considerable mismatch between written products and knowledge of genre characteristics.

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