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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Case for Reading - Examining Challenged and Banned Books
   Students examine books, selected from the American Library Association Challenged/Banned Books list, and write persuasive pieces expressing their views about what should be done with the books at their school.
2. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Aligning the Strategies Identified in Writing Next with the Common Core State Standards
   In this Web seminar, work together to see how collaboration, inquiry, and the study of models can improve your students' writing in a variety of genres that meet the narratives, informative, and argument standards of the CCSS.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Analyzing Character Development in Three Short Stories About Women
   Students read three short stories about women; discuss the development of female characters, gender differences, and society's expectations; and write scripts in which the characters discuss their similarities and differences.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Assessing Cultural Relevance: Exploring Personal Connections to a Text
   As a class, students evaluate a nonfiction or realistic fiction text for its cultural relevance to themselves personally and as a group.
5. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 6  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   BOOKMATCH: Scaffolding Book Selection for Independent Reading
   Using the instructional tool BOOKMATCH, this article provides book-selection strategies for students' independent reading.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English Dictionary
   Students become novice lexicographers as they explore recent new entries to the dictionary, learn the process of writing entries for the Oxford English Dictionary, and write a new entry themselves.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Brochures: Writing for Audience and Purpose
   Students create brochures on the same topic as another piece of writing they have done, highlighting how shifting purposes and audiences creates changes in their strategies as writers.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 8
   Celebrate International Literacy Day!
   Celebrate International Literacy Day by starting a literacy movement in your community.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Censorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues
   Students examine propaganda and media bias, research a variety of banned and challenged books, choose a side of the censorship issue, and support their position through an advertising campaign.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 23
    Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, was integrated in 1957.
    After viewing some footage from the actual event, students jot down thoughts and feelings of the Little Rock Nine. Students then write a bio-poem that might have been written by one of these students on this historic day.

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