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1. 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.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
   Students research engineering careers and create poetry to understand the vocabulary of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).
3. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Exploring Intersections between Digital and Disciplinary Literacy: Leveraging Synergies for Deeper Learning
   This interactive Web seminar will examine digital practices essential for learning in the disciplines.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Finding Solutions to Food Waste: Persuasion in a Digital World
   Using various reading strategies and resources, students explore the issue of food waste. They also create persuasive arguments and blog posts examining this topic.
5. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Tip & How-To
   How to Start a Writer's Notebook
   Writer's notebooks allow children and teens to take in the world around them and document their daily lives. Use these tips to learn how to start a writer's notebook with your child.
6. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Activity & Project
   It's Raining Cats and Dogs! Make a Children's Book about the Weather
   Kids learn about weather sayings throughout history while writing and illustrating a book for younger children.
7. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Literacy in Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects: Scaffolding Levels of Text Complexity (With Discipline-based Texts)
   Join NCTE for the web seminar "Literacy in Social studies, Science, and Technical Subjects: Scaffolding Levels of Text Complexity (With Discipline-based Texts)" hosted by Jan Clinard.
8. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   On Demand Web Seminar Package: Literacy Across the Disciplines
   Take the guesswork out of choosing the best on demand Web seminars while building your professional library on teaching literacy across all content areas.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 27
   On this day in 1907, Rachel Carson was born.
   Students learn about Rachel Carson, explore different environmental websites, and write a Diamante Poem about a particular habitat.
10. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 9  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Power of Picture Books, The: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School
    Featuring descriptions and activities for fifty exceptional titles, Mary Jo Fresch and Peggy Harkins offer a wealth of ideas for harnessing the power of picture books to improve reading and writing in the content areas.

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