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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. 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.
3. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Assessing Student Interests and Strengths
   In this Strategy Guide, you’ll learn about a number of specific methods that can help you to gain a fuller picture of the interests of your students as well as what your students understand, know, and can demonstrate by doing.
4. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto
   Using Animoto, a free Web 2.0 tool, students can develop short digital videos that include music, photos, video clips, and text as well as share their creations electronically.
5. 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.
6. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Conversation: The Comprehension Connection
   Conversation provides opportunities for students to practice and use cognitive strategies, and is critical for developing comprehension.
7. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Engaging the Disengaged: Using Learning Clubs to Motivate Struggling Adolescent Readers and Writers
   This article describes the use of learning clubs to motivate struggling students to engage in literacy events and foster literacy development.
8. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   "Help! What Is Wrong With These Literature Circles and How Can We Fix Them?"
   The authors of this article offer some suggestions for how to improve literature circle discussions.
9. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Overlapping Vocabulary and Comprehension: Context Clues Complement Semantic Gradients
   This teaching technique combines two strategies, context clues and semantic gradients, to help students make vocabulary-to-comprehension connections.
10. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Strategy Guide
    Peer Review
    This strategy guide explains how you can employ peer review in your classroom, guiding students as they offer each other constructive feedback to improve their writing and communication skills.

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