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11. Professional Development | Grades   1 – 3  |  Strategy Guide
    Promote Deep Thinking! How to Choose a Complex Text
    Complex texts promote deep thinking and critical analysis by students. Through close reading of a complex text, students' independent reading abilities also increase.
12. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Setting the Stage for Creative Writing: Plot Scaffolds for Beginning and Intermediate Writers
    Want to foster creativity and originality in student writing? This practical guide shows how plot scaffolds can be used to help beginning and intermediate writers.
13. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    Teaching Synthesis with Interactive Read-Alouds of Informational Texts
    In this Web seminar, we will discuss how to explicitly introduce synthesis of nonfiction texts as well as how to plan for reading aloud a text so as to promote understanding of the author's central ideas.
14. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading
    This landmark reference offers in-depth exploration of contemporary reading and literacy research.
15. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    Toward a Culturally Responsive Inquiry Curriculum in Early Childhood Classrooms
    Join us for this third session of the Culturally Relevant Teaching in Early Childhood Classrooms series where we will explore risks and rewards of inquiry in K-2 classroom settings.
16. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    What Every Teacher Needs to Know About Comprehension
    This article presents a model of comprehension to support classroom teachers as they engage their students in making meaning from text.
17. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    What's So Critical about Critical Literacy in the Early Childhood Classroom?
    Join us for this second session of the Culturally Relevant Teaching in Early Childhood Classrooms series where we will explore what critical literacy looks like in a K-2 classroom setting.
18. Professional Development | Grades   K – 6  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Wondrous Words: Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom
    Katie Wood Ray explains in practical terms the theoretical underpinnings of how elementary and middle school students learn to write from their reading.
19. Professional Development | Grades   K – 6  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    Write This Way: How Modeling Transforms the Writing Classroom
    In this one-hour Web seminar, Kelly Boswell will share how to transform student writers by infusing short bursts of purposeful teacher modeling. As students watch an adult writer think, talk and write, they can develop the skills needed in order to craft writing that is both polished and purposeful.

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