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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
   In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Examining Island of the Blue Dolphins through a Literary Lens
   After a discussion about courage and adversity and reading Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins, students examine Karana's character development and look for examples of courage in their community.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exchanging Ideas by Sharing Journals: Interactive Response in the Classroom
   Pairs of students respond to literature alternately in shared journals. Mini-lessons are presented on responding to prompts, creating dialogue, adding drawings, and asking and answering questions.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Literature Response in Primary Classrooms
   This step-by-step literature response template for use with read-alouds asks students to use drawing and writing to respond to increasingly-complex prompts which address literary elements as well as personal connections.
5. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   On Demand Web Seminar Package: Supporting English Language Learners
   Take the guesswork out of choosing the best on demand Web seminars while building your professional library on supporting English language learners.
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   6 – 12  |  Mobile App  |  Learning About Language
   RWT Word Matrix
   Explore the similarities and differences among words typically considered synonyms with this mobile app that allows middle- and secondary-level students organize groups of words by connotation on one axis and by register on another.
8. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Supporting Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
   This Strategy Guide is for developing comprehension that incorporates the gradual release of responsibility model.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Teaching the Epic through Ghost Stories
   In this lesson, students connect to the oral tradition of epic storytellers by sharing their own oral tales of ghosts and goblins and monsters.