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1. Professional Development | November 19–22, 2020
   2020 NCTE Annual Convention
   This fall, when we come together in Denver, let’s read, write, speak, listen, and view with curiosity. Together, we will be a confluencia of our songs.
2. Professional Development | Grades   K – 11  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Building Academic Language to Deepen Comprehension and Learning
   Join NCTE for the web seminar "Learning Words Inside and Out" hosted by Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Family Message Journals Teach Many Purposes for Writing
   This lesson encourages children to explore authentic reasons for writing by writing messages to their family in a family message journal.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Getting the ig in Pig: Helping Children Discover Onset and Rime
   Students will need their language-building hard hats as they construct words using onset and rime, building vocabulary and phonics comprehension.
5. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Grammar Alive!: A Guide for Teachers
   NCTE's Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar provides this much-needed resource for teachers who wonder what to do about grammar—how to teach it, how to apply it, how to learn what they themselves were never taught.
6. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Grammar for Teachers: Perspectives and Definitions
   Weaver examines the connection between a teacher's knowledge of grammar and students' growth in language skills as she provides specific examples of how teachers can put their knowledge of grammar to use without intimidating or overwhelming students.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Phonic Generalizations in Chrysanthemum
   Students learn about word families by reading Kevin Henkes's book Chrysanthemum, identifying words with certain vowel pair endings, and reading words with similar endings.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading
   Teach your students about sentence structure, rhyming words, sight words, vocabulary, and print concepts using a weekly poem.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Sentence Quest: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences
   Students learn about sentences by listing verbs, nouns, and adjectives. They use word cards to create descriptive sentences and work in groups to create the longest sentences they can.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Spelling Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
    "2-4-6-8, students will be spelling great" in this lesson that teaches the y rule for adding suffixes through cheering the spelling of words aloud, word sorts, and writing stories.

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