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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 – 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Different Texts, Different Emergent Writing Forms
   Examines young children's ability to vary the forms of emergent writing as they wrote a story, a shopping list, and a letter to a friend at three different times during the school year. Finds that children apply their emergent knowledge about written language differently. Indicates a considerable mismatch between written products and knowledge of genre characteristics.
6. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Exploring the Past through Multigenre Writing
   Research comes alive when students explore a range of alternate genres instead of writing the traditional research report.
7. Professional Development | Grades   K – 2  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Five Internet Sites Too Good to Miss
   The author shares five developmentally appropriate websites for primary-grade readers to support their literacy development.
8. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   "Genre Studies"
   In this issue you will read about elementary children who are introduced to genre primarily through their teachers reading aloud. The children are invited to become inquirers who continue to explore books as they meet in small groups to write and read on their own—from fantasy to African folktales to poetry.
9. Professional Development | Grades   K – 6  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Implementing Readers Theatre as an approach to classroom fluency instruction
   This article describes how Readers Theatre was implemented as an engaging means for reading fluency instruction in a second-grade classroom.
10. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Inquiry at the Window: The Year of the Birds
    This science inquiry in a fourth-grade classroom affirms the importance of observation, questioning, reading, and writing to the inquiry process.

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