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1. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Community Mapping
   This Web seminar will examine Community Mapping as a practice designed to uncover a rich array of resources in households and communities that hold the potential to enhance literacy learning for children while developing reciprocal relationship with families.
2. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Strategy Guide
   Making Connections
   In this strategy guide, you’ll learn to model how students can make three different kinds of connections (text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world). Students then use this knowledge to find their own personal connections to a text.
3. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Reading & Writing & Teens: A Parent’s Guide to Adolescent Literacy
   Offering advice from a host of experts in adolescent literacy, this book helps answer real questions from parents across the country about how to best support their teens as readers and writers.
4. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Teaching with Zooming Slideshows through Prezi
   Through Prezi, a web application, students create "zooming" presentations for various purposes, such as presenting research, defending an opinion, or sharing a digital story.
5. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
   This strategy guide introduces the RAFT technique and offers practical ideas for using this technique to teach students to experiment with various perspectives in their writing.