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1. Professional Development | November 16–19, 2017
   2017 NCTE Annual Convention
   Teaching Our Students Today, Tomorrow, Forever: Recapturing Our Voices, Our Agency, Our Mission
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Adventures in Nonfiction: A Guided Inquiry Journey
   Students are guided through an informal exploration of nonfiction texts and child-oriented Websites, learning browsing and skimming techniques for the purpose of gathering interesting information.
   
3. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Podcast Episode
   All About Elections
   This episode focuses on presidential elections.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Animal Study: From Fiction to Facts
   Students listen to fiction and nonfiction read-alouds and explore selected Websites to identify factual information about animals. This lesson focuses on ants, but can be adapted to any animal.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   As Slippery as an Eel: An Ocean Unit Exploring Simile and Metaphor
   Students play with simile and metaphor as they study the ocean and use figurative language to write a class book about it.
6. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Podcast Episode
   A Tribute to Abraham Lincoln
   Emily presents three very different books about Lincoln and hosts a roundtable discussion with the authors of these books to delve deeper into Lincoln's remarkable life.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 11
   Author E.B. White was born on this day in 1899.
   Author E.B. White, most well-known for his famous children's book, Charlotte's Web, received high acclaim and awards for many of his works of fiction.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 14
   Author Laura Joffe Numeroff was born in 1953.
   Using one of Numeroff's books as a model, students use the circle plot structure as a culminating project for a unit of study completed in the classroom.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
   Book Cover Creator
   The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Casting Shadows Across Literacy and Science
    Shadows, shadows, everywhere! In this lesson, students read fiction, informational text, and poetry about shadows to extend their knowledge of the concept before casting their own shadow poetry.

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