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This fourth-grade teacher, a TT Award winner, offers some classroom suggestions to make Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day an opportunity for deep, personal engagement—not a day off.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Issue 50, Summer 2015

This toolkit describes how affinity groups help marginalized students to be seen and heard, and provides step-by-step recommendations on how to launch an affinity group—or revamp one that already exists—at your school.

teaching strategy

Community Inquiry

Artifact Add-ons

Artifact Add-on asks students to select and share real-life objects that illustrate concepts and ideas from the central text.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

RL.3-5.1, RI.3-5.1, RL.3-5.2, RI.3-5.2, RL.3-5.3, RI.3-5.3, SL.3-5.1, SL.3-5.2 SL.3-5.4, SL.3-5.5, SL.3-5.6

July 13, 2014

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Issue 48, Fall 2014

What We’re Reading

Teaching Tolerance staff review the latest in culturally aware literature and resources, offering the best picks for professional development and teachers of all grades.

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Issue 45, Fall 2013

Fight for Every Child

Connecting teachers and families is a high priority for Julia Zigarelli.

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Issue 46, Spring 2014

Toolkit for Exposed

This toolkit outlines an activity that uses personal reflection, writing and class discussion to address cyberbullying.

teaching strategy

Responding to the Read-Aloud Text

Challenge the Text

Challenge the Text helps students ask and answer their own text-dependent questions by taking multiple perspectives and uncovering assumptions and biases within the text.

Grade Level

K-2

July 19, 2014

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Issue 45, Fall 2013

What We’re Reading

The latest in culturally aware literature and resources for teachers of all grades.