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Grades K – 12 | Meeting & Event
2019 NCTE Annual Convention
Next fall, when we come together in Baltimore, let’s inquire together. Let’s dare to wonder, to be bold and creative in our curiosity. Let’s reawaken our own spirit of inquiry as teachers, leaders, writers, readers, and thinkers.
Grades 5 – 9 | Professional Library
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.
Grades K – 12 | Strategy Guide
Using Guided Reading to Develop Student Reading Independence
Grades K – 8 | Strategy Guide
Grades 6 – 12 | Online Professional Development
Using Formative Reading Assessment to Enhance Content Area Learning
Grades K – 12 | Strategy Guide
Using Guided Reading to Develop Student Reading Independence
This guide presents basic structures for implementing guided reading, which involves working with small groups of children possessing similar strategies and challenges when encountering new text.
Grades K – 8 | Strategy Guide
Tracking and Supporting Student Learning with Kidwatching
In this strategy guide, you'll learn how to use kidwatching to track and support student learning. Teachers observe and take notes on students' understanding of skills and concepts and then use the observations to determine effective strategies for future instruction.
Grades 6 – 12 | Online Professional Development
Using Formative Reading Assessment to Enhance Content Area Learning
Drawing on the work in his 2012 NCTE book Beyond Standardized Truth: Improving Teaching and Learning through Inquiry-Based Reading Assessment, Scott Filkins shares practical tools to gather information about students as readers and instructional responses that promote increased understanding of subject matter.
Browse Professional Development Resources
Grades 6 – 12 | Strategy Guide
Supporting Student Comprehension in Content Area Reading
In this strategy guide, you'll learn a few simple, yet powerful, techniques to encourage students to use peer talk and writing to enhance their understanding of content area texts.
Grades K – 12 | Strategy Guide
Using the Think-Pair-Share Technique
In this strategy guide, you will learn how to organize students and classroom topics to encourage a high degree of classroom participation and assist students in developing a conceptual understanding of a topic through the use of the Think-Pair-Share technique.
Grades 5 – 12 | Strategy Guide
Facilitating Participation with Silent Conversations
This guide introduces silent conversations, a collaborative learning technique that has students
thinking, sharing, and reflecting about important questions—but through writing rather than talk.
Grades K – 6 | Strategy Guide
Using Paired Reading to Increase Fluency and Peer Cooperation
In this strategy, students read aloud to each other, pairing more fluent readers with less fluent readers. This strategy can also be used to pair older students with younger students to create "reading buddies."
Grades 6 – 12 | Strategy Guide
Conducting Inner-Outer Circle Discussions
This guide shares the steps to take to get more students talking by dividing the group into speaking and non-speaking circles.
