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11. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Building Arab Americans' Cultural Identity and Acceptance With Children's Literature
    Introducing multicultural children's literature into the elementary classroom is a first step toward eliminating stereotyping and prejudice and helping students develop cultural identity.
12. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Children's Inquiry: Using Language to Make Sense of the World
    Lindfors introduces a theoretical framework for understanding children's inquiry language—as communication acts in which the child brings another into the act of sense-making—and uncovers new possibilities for our understanding of how children learn.
13. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Close reading in elementary schools
    Close reading is a recommended instructional approach to meet the challenges of teaching complex texts. But close readings are more common in high school and college than in elementary schools. In this article, we identify the components of close reading that were developed after a group of elementary school teachers observed their colleges in high school. In addition, we focus on the modifications necessary to implement close reading in elementary schools.
14. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
    Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
    This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use.
15. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Code-Switching: Teaching Standard English in Urban Classrooms
    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.
16. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Codeswitching: Tools of Language and Culture Transform the Dialectally Diverse Classroom
    This article shows how to affirm and draw on the dialect diversity of students to foster the learning of Standard English.
17. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Cold Plums and the Old Men in the Water: Let Children Read and Write "Great" Poetry
    The author of this article advocates using "great" poetry with children, and providing the link between the reading and writing of poetry.
18. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Conversation: The Comprehension Connection
    Conversation provides opportunities for students to practice and use cognitive strategies, and is critical for developing comprehension.
19. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning
    This book helps educators unlock Internet and digital media resources to classrooms while respecting the rights of copyright holders.
20. Professional Development | Grades   2 – 7  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Creating Lifelong Readers Through Independent Reading
    This book provides information on the benefits of independent reading, how to set up a classroom library, and ways to actively engage students in independent reading.

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