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11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    Collaborative Conversations: Meeting Speaking and Listening Standards
    This one-hour Web seminar will focus on the instructional routines that ensure that students develop the habits necessary to engage with their peers.
16. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    Community Mapping
    This Web seminar will examine Community Mapping as a practice designed to uncover a rich array of resources in households and communities that hold the potential to enhance literacy learning for children while developing reciprocal relationship with families.
17. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    Confidence in Community Literacies: Bilingual Writers Reading the World
    In this Web seminar, join Steven Alvarez in considering how the strengths of after-school community programs—connecting with language-minoritized communities in ways that build relationships of trust, or confianza, between parents, extended families, and caring adults in neighborhoods—can inform our practices as teachers of English language learners.
18. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
    Connecting with Intention
    Join Franki Sibberson and Bill Bass, authors of Digital Reading: What's Essential in Grades 3-8, to explore how these connections can change the way that students interact with their ideas and each other.
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   K – 3  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Creating Strategic Readers: Techniques for Developing Competency in Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension
    Organized around the five essential components of reading instruction, this text lays the groundwork for a comprehensive literacy classroom.

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