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61. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Motivating Young Writers Through Write-Talks: Real Writers, Real Audiences, Real Purposes
    This article describes the use of "write-talks," brief motivational talks designed to engage students in writing.
62. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 9  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
    Using texts that first meet the reading "levels" of middle school students, then offering increasingly challenging books, teachers can group students at all levels using multiple texts. Strategy logs and conferences are two of the successful tools teachers use to increase comprehension as well as critical reading skills.
63. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
    NCTE Position Statement on Reading
    In order to make sure that all individuals have access to the personal pleasures and intellectual benefits of full literacy, NCTE created the NCTE Position Statement on Reading in February of 1999.
64. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
    New Literacies and 21st-Century Technologies
    IRA's position on recognizing an expanded conception of literacy and supporting learners as they use and interact with information and communication technologies.
65. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Nonfiction Inquiry: Using Real Reading and Writing to Explore the World
    Nonfiction is the genre most likely to spur children's passion and wonder for learning. This article discusses way to motivate children to read nonfiction.
66. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Overlapping Vocabulary and Comprehension: Context Clues Complement Semantic Gradients
    This teaching technique combines two strategies, context clues and semantic gradients, to help students make vocabulary-to-comprehension connections.
67. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Paraphrasing: An Effective Comprehension Strategy
    In this article, the author explains what paraphrasing is and how it can increase student's comprehension.
68. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 9  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Peek, Peak, Pique: Using Homophones to Teach Vocabulary (and Spelling!)
    Argues that regular homophone practice enhances vocabulary knowledge, spelling skills, pronunciation ability, and overall reading proficiency. Describes how card games played with decks of homophones helped to accomplish these things. Notes particular benefits of homophone games to ESL students, and outlines key advantages of using the games.
69. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Poets in Practice
    This article discusses the need to engage students and teachers in active poetry writing.
70. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
    Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies
    This position on Multimodal Literacies is a summary statement developed by the Multimodal Literacies Issue Management Team of the NCTE Executive Committee.

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