Students can utilize this printout to organize their thoughts as a new concept or content is introduced through a Seed Discussion. This printout readies students to acquire new knowledge by organizing what they know and what they're prepared to learn.
Seed Discussion Organizer
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Sequence of Events Chart
3 - 12
Printout
| Graphic Organizer
This graphic organizer helps students see the sequential or cause-effect relationships between multiple events in a text.
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Anticipation Guide
3 - 12
Printout
| Assessment Tool
Help establish a purpose for reading—and generate post-reading reflection and discussion—with this guide.
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Writing at the Threshold: Featuring 56 Ways to Prepare High School and College Students to Think and Write at the College Level
11 - 12
Professional Library
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This book offers both an eloquent philosophy of composition instruction and a useful set of classroom-tested teaching ideas distilled from the author's 28 years of teaching writing.
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What Is "College-Level" Writing?
9 - 12
Professional Library
| Book
Just what defines "college-level" writing? This collection seeks to engage this essential question with care, patience, and pragmatism.
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Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel
7 - 12
Professional Library
| Book
This collection of essays by classroom teachers demonstrates how to pair graphic novels with classic literature (including both canonical and YA lit).
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Code-Switching: Teaching Standard English in Urban Classrooms
K - 8
Professional Library
| Book
Wheeler and Swords show K–6 teachers how to use code-switching and contrastive analysis to help students use prior knowledge to translate vernacular English into Standard English.
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Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom
9 - 12
Professional Library
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In this practical guide, John Golden makes direct links between film and literary study by addressing reading strategies (e.g., predicting, responding, questioning) and key aspects of textual analysis.
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Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
8 - 12
Professional Library
| Book
This collection of lesson plans will help prepare high school and college students for college-level writing.
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Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms
7 - 12
Professional Library
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Amy Benjamin challenges the idea of "skill and drill" grammar instruction, and Tom Oliva provides a teacher's journal chronicling how the concepts in this book can work in a real classroom.
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Grammar Alive!: A Guide for Teachers
K - 12
Professional Library
| Book
NCTE's Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar provides this much-needed resource for teachers who wonder what to do about grammar—how to teach it, how to apply it, how to learn what they themselves were never taught.
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Wondrous Words: Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom
K - 6
Professional Library
| Book
Katie Wood Ray explains in practical terms the theoretical underpinnings of how elementary and middle school students learn to write from their reading.
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The Writing Workshop: Working through the Hard Parts (And They're All Hard Parts)
K - 8
Professional Library
| Book
A practical, comprehensive, and illuminating guide for both new and experienced teachers that confronts the challenges of the writing workshop head-on.
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Engaging Students with Library of Congress Primary Sources in the ELA Classroom Quick-Reference Guide (QRG)
3 - 12
Printout
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Quick-Reference Guide (QRG) focused on "Engaging Students with Library of Congress Primary Sources in the ELA Classroom."
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Quantitative Civic Reasoning: A Guide for Centering Civic Innovation in Math and English Language Arts Classrooms
4 - 12
Professional Library
| Professional Library
This guide explores quantitative civic reasoning in English and math classrooms.
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Rosa Parks was born on this day in 1913.
K - 12
Calendar Activity
| Historical Figure & Event
Rosa Parks was committed to the struggle for social justice and human rights until her death, inspiring millions of people around the world. Today, we celebrate her!
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Read Across America Day: Celebrate a Nation of Diverse Readers
K - 12
Calendar Activity
| Literacy-Related Event
Bring the celebration of reading and literacy into your classroom, library, school, and home all year long.
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2023 NCTE Annual Convention
K - 12
Meeting & Event
| Convention
Each November thousands of literacy educators from across the country make the journey to a Convention that inspires their practice and rejuvenates their profession.
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Celebrate Digital Learning Day today.
K - 12
Calendar Activity
| Literacy-Related Event
Students reflect on recent learning and the role digital tools and media have played in supporting or enhancing it.
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What's in This? Investigating Nutrition Information
6 - 8
Encourage children and teens to make healthful food choices by having them explore the foods they eat and the ways those foods are advertised.