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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   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Be Fabulous: The Reading Teacher's Guide to Reclaiming Your Happiness in the Classroom
   Scoggin merges her straight-talking blogger persona, Mrs. Mimi, with her years of research to help you rediscover who you are and redefine the type of literacy teacher you want to become. At the heart of this book is teacher happiness and empowerment—reconnect with your inner fabulous to give the best possible literacy instruction to your students.
3. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Being and Becoming: Multilingual Writers' Practices
   This study examines the writing practices taken on and negotiated by multilingual class members within two multiage elementary classrooms.
4. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Beyond Reading and Writing: Inquiry, Curriculum, and Multiple Ways of Knowing
   The authors offer theory-into-practice techniques, insight into how such a curriculum actually worked on a day-to-day basis, suggestions on how educators can better support and understand their students, and, insights the authors gained by undertaking this inquiry.
5. Professional Development | Grade   K  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Building a Foundation for Preschool Literacy: Effective Instruction for Children's Reading and Writing Development (Second Edition)
   This book focuses on best practices for providing preschoolers with early literacy instruction.
6. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Children's Inquiry: Using Language to Make Sense of the World
   Lindfors introduces a theoretical framework for understanding children's inquiry language—as communication acts in which the child brings another into the act of sense-making—and uncovers new possibilities for our understanding of how children learn.
7. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Close reading in elementary schools
   Close reading is a recommended instructional approach to meet the challenges of teaching complex texts. But close readings are more common in high school and college than in elementary schools. In this article, we identify the components of close reading that were developed after a group of elementary school teachers observed their colleges in high school. In addition, we focus on the modifications necessary to implement close reading in elementary schools.
8. 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.
9. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Code-Switching: Teaching Standard English in Urban Classrooms
   Wheeler and Swords show K–6 teachers how to use code-switching and contrastive analysis to help students use prior knowledge to translate vernacular English into Standard English.
10. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Codeswitching: Tools of Language and Culture Transform the Dialectally Diverse Classroom
    This article shows how to affirm and draw on the dialect diversity of students to foster the learning of Standard English.

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