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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 | 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.
4. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Close reading in elementary schools
   Close reading is a recommended instructional approach to meet the challenges of teaching complex texts. But close readings are more common in high school and college than in elementary schools. In this article, we identify the components of close reading that were developed after a group of elementary school teachers observed their colleges in high school. In addition, we focus on the modifications necessary to implement close reading in elementary schools.
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   2 – 7  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Creating Lifelong Readers Through Independent Reading
   This book provides information on the benefits of independent reading, how to set up a classroom library, and ways to actively engage students in independent reading.
10. 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.

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