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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   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Bringing Word Study to Intermediate Classrooms
   Students can become excited about language and how it works through short, integrated word study units.
3. 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.
4. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Cold Plums and the Old Men in the Water: Let Children Read and Write "Great" Poetry
   The author of this article advocates using "great" poetry with children, and providing the link between the reading and writing of poetry.
5. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises
   Dunning and Stafford, both widely known poets and educators, offer this delightful manual of exercises for beginning poets.
6. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Let's Go to the Movies: Rethinking the Role of Film in the Elementary Classroom
   Argues that elementary language-arts teachers should expand their definition of "text" to include film, a valuable instructional material. Notes that today's elementary students come to class with a great deal of knowledge about films--prior experiences which teachers can tap into. Discusses the application to film of reader-response theories.
7. 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.
8. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
   Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies
   This position on Multimodal Literacies is a summary statement developed by the Multimodal Literacies Issue Management Team of the NCTE Executive Committee.
9. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
   Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing
   With full recognition that writing is an increasingly multifaceted activity, we offer several principles that should guide effective teaching practice.
10. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Radical Change and Wikis: Teaching New Literacies
    Researchers in this study found that students had developed some visual literacy skills using Radical Change texts and wikis.

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