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1. 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.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Great American Inventors: Using Nonfiction to Learn About Technology Inventions
   Who are the people behind the world's greatest inventions? Students read biographies of a terrific trio of American inventors and create presentations that highlight how their inventions from the past impacted the future.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Searching for Gold: A Collaborative Inquiry Project
   Each small group of students researches one aspect of the same big topic, such as the Gold Rush, and teaches what they have learned to the rest of the class.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Sharing Favorite Books Using Interactive Character Trading Cards
   Using selected characters from a text of their choice, students put their literary analysis skills to work by creating fictional character trading cards.