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1. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Exploring Intersections between Digital and Disciplinary Literacy: Leveraging Synergies for Deeper Learning
   This interactive Web seminar will examine digital practices essential for learning in the disciplines.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Finding Solutions to Food Waste: Persuasion in a Digital World
   Using various reading strategies and resources, students explore the issue of food waste. They also create persuasive arguments and blog posts examining this topic.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Glogging About Natural Disasters
   After researching various natural disasters, students share their findings with each other using glogs, or through poster presentations.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Learning about Clouds with Haikus
   Using a mobile app or Interactive activity, students write haikus describing various types of clouds that they have studied.
5. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Literacy in Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects: Scaffolding Levels of Text Complexity (With Discipline-based Texts)
   Join NCTE for the web seminar "Literacy in Social studies, Science, and Technical Subjects: Scaffolding Levels of Text Complexity (With Discipline-based Texts)" hosted by Jan Clinard.
6. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 9  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Power of Picture Books, The: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School
   Featuring descriptions and activities for fifty exceptional titles, Mary Jo Fresch and Peggy Harkins offer a wealth of ideas for harnessing the power of picture books to improve reading and writing in the content areas.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Organizing & Summarizing
   Trading Card Creator
   This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a variety of topics such as a character in a book, a person or place from history, or even a physical object. An excellent tool to for summarizing or as a prewriting exercise for original stories.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Vocabulary Solutions: A Mixture of Science, Conversation, and Writing
   In this lesson, students conduct a science experiment and later discuss the events of the lab during shared writing. Students explain the procedure in their own words and then revise to include content specific vocabulary. Finally, students reflect on new words added to their writing using the Trading Card Creator interactive.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Mobile App  |  Writing Poetry
   Word Mover
   Word Mover allows children and teens to create "found poetry" by choosing from word banks and existing famous works; additionally, users can add new words to create a piece of poetry by moving/manipulating the text.