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1. Professional Development | November 15–18, 2018
   2018 NCTE Annual Convention
   2018 NCTE Annual Convention "Raising Student Voice: Speaking Out for Equity and Justice"
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A "Cay"ribbean Island Study
   As a pre-reading activity for The Cay, groups of students choose and study a Caribbean island, create a final product in the format of their choice, and finally, do an oral presentation to share information learned.
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 20
   Actor Sidney Poitier was born in 1924.
   Students do a journal entry about barriers that have been broken,such as age, race, and gender, that might impede them in the future, and how they can break through those barriers.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Analyzing How Narrative Structure Generates Empathy in Wonder
   This lesson builds students' understanding of empathy by defining key terms and comparing responses to characters when they are introduced by someone else, and then when they narrate the story themselves.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 5
   Annual fence-painting contests take place in Hannibal, Missouri.
   A scene from one of Twain's works is chosen and students map the story setting using the Story Map. Setting is then discussed as a class.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Printout  |  Assessment Tool
   Anticipation Guide
   Help establish a purpose for reading—and generate post-reading reflection and discussion—with this guide.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Applying Question-Answer Relationships to Pictures
   A picture is worth a thousand words as students are guided in viewing wordless picture books and responding to four different types of questions about the images they see.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Race With Grace: Sports Poetry in Motion
   In this lesson, athletics, aesthetics, and poetics intersect in new ways as developing literacy learners experiment together with the forms of language.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Authoring an Epilogue That Helps Our Characters Live On
    This lesson uses One Green Apple by Eve Bunting to teach how characters change across a text. It will also guide students through writing an epilogue to accompany their independent book.

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