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11. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Literacy Remix: Bridging Adolescents' In and Out of School Literacies
    This resources promotes the use new literacies to help students connect to school texts.
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Making It Visual for ELL Students: Teaching History Using Maus
    Spark the engagement of English-language learners or reluctant readers with the graphic novel Maus. The visual information provided by the genre serves as a support for reading and critical engagement.
13. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Multipurpose Poetry: Introducing Science Concepts and Increasing Fluency
    Creepy crawlers, hoppers, and fliers are the focus of this lesson in which students chorally read poems about insects and use the Internet to locate facts about their assigned insects.
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Nature Study Outdoor Treasure Hunts (with Spanish language option)
    Students take a walk on the wild side when they research an animal and create a scavenger hunt activity for their classmates.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
    Make connections across genres and across cultures to engage students in the study of literary voice and themes. Comprehension skills and vocabulary also come into play, especially for English language learners, as students read a novel and related poems, then write and perform original poems related to the novel.
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Q is for Duck: Using Alphabet Books With Struggling Writers
    A is for zoo? Q is for duck? The alphabet as students know it is transformed when students create a class book that contains clever associations for each letter of the alphabet.
17. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
    Second-Language Literacy Instruction
    This position statement offers recommendations on ways to support second-language learners.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Tell Me Your Story: Video-Inspired Vocabulary Writing
    Students watch a sample of artistic video clips online and respond through creative writing while using the vocabulary words they are currently studying.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme Court
    Students have the right to have fun in this lesson in which they create a PowerPoint presentation about civil rights and the Supreme Court.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    The Magnetism of Language: Parts of Speech, Poetry, and Word Play
    What wonderful ways words work! The parts of speech are the highlight of this lesson in which students identify parts of speech in a nonsensical poem and then create their own wild and wacky rhymes.

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