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11. 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.
12. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Persuasive Writing: What Can Writing in Family Message Journals Do for Students?
    This lesson engages children in using writing to their families as a persuasive tool to get what they want and need.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Using Children's Natural Curiosity to Lead to Descriptive Writing
    Inspired by the book It Begins with an A, kindergarten students are invited to turn their curiosity and guesswork into a class book, complete with illustrated objects and descriptive language
17. Classroom Resources | Grade   K  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Using Repetition and Picture Cues to Foster Independent Young Readers
    Kindergartners share their knowledge of letters and sounds in a large group setting, giving teachers an assessment opportunity. Each student contributes a page to make a repetitive classroom book.
18. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Using the RAFT Writing Strategy
    This strategy guide introduces the RAFT technique and offers practical ideas for using this technique to teach students to experiment with various perspectives in their writing.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Weekend News! A Weekly Writing Activity
    On Monday mornings, you're likely to be asked, "What did you do this weekend?" In this lesson, students respond to this question in a self-assessed writing assignment about their weekend adventures.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    When I Was Young In...A Literature to Language Experience
    Past meets present in this lesson in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.

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