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21. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 29
    Participate in Poem in Your Pocket Day!
    Students select a poem and create a Stapleless Book using the interactive tool.
22. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 18
    Paul Revere began his famous midnight ride in 1775.
    Through the study of Paul Revere, students learn about primary source documents while researching their family histories, with which they create and compare their family trees.
23. Professional Development | Grades   K – 6  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Planning for Inquiry: It's Not an Oxymoron!
    Planning for Inquiry shows you how to get an inquiry-based curriculum started, how to keep it going, and how to do so while remaining accountable to mandated curricula, standards, and programs.
24. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Powerful Writing: Description in Creating Monster Trading Cards
    Students create their own monster trading cards using "powerful," vivid language to describe their creatures.
25. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Searching for Gold: A Collaborative Inquiry Project
    Each small group of students researches one aspect of the same big topic, such as the Gold Rush, and teaches what they have learned to the rest of the class.
26. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Sharing Favorite Books Using Interactive Character Trading Cards
    Using selected characters from a text of their choice, students put their literary analysis skills to work by creating fictional character trading cards.
27. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 11
    Sharon Draper was born on this day in 1952.
    Students read a book from one of Draper's trilogies and then meet to discuss their book with students have read the other two books.
    
28. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Standards for the English Language Arts
    Standards for the English Language Arts presents a vision of literacy education that encompasses the use of print, oral, and visual language and addresses six interrelated English language arts: reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and visually representing.
29. Professional Development | Grades   4 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Text Complexity: Raising Rigor in Reading
    Selecting appropriate reading material for students is hard. For decades, teachers have known that quality instruction requires a careful matching of materials to students. The goal is to select materials that are neither too difficult nor too easy for students--a phenomenon sometimes called the Goldilocks Rule.
30. 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.

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