Gaining new vocabulary is necessary for fluid reading and writing. Help students build word knowledge in a variety of ways using audio supports, flashcards, terms in context, and clever game play. Here are 20 digital resources for helping students build their vocabulary at the link below from Graphite.

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Join the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching this Spring for high-quality professional development in Early Grades Literacy!

3797: Supporting the Literacy of Gifted Children in the Early Grades
January 11-15, 2015, Ocracoke

By Ernest H. Johnson, Ph.D. and Mattie Perry-Johnson, M.L.S

With the Christmas season upon us, if you are not aware of it by now, let us make it clear to you: We have a reading epidemic in America! Learning to read is a challenge for more than 40 percent of children.

Check out our Spring 2015 science and math seminar listings below. Visit our website for a complete listing of our professional development programs at www.nccat.org or for more information, contact Teacher Services at 828.293.5202 or email [email protected].

NCCAT covers lodging, meals and programming. Participants are responsible for travel cost and substitute teaching fees unless otherwise noted. Applicants must be employed full-time in North Carolina public schools.

Edutopia recently published this great reminder of the important work teachers do and how it makes a difference.

From Edutopia ...

We hope you have a very happy Holiday Season, and we've got some great ways to hit 2015 running with professional development with us in Cullowhee or Ocracoke or Online. NCCAT’s vision is to help North Carolina teachers grow in knowledge, skills, compassion, and professionalism so that every student becomes engaged, self-motivated, and successful. NCCAT helps to retain the most caring, highly qualified, and skilled teachers necessary to positively impact the quality of public education in North Carolina.

Virginia Spaventa was able to take information from the "Catching up with your students: Digital Learning" program directly back to Frank Morgan Elementary in Clemmons to help students and parents.

Click here for link to video of her describing what she did and how.

We have openings now to join these programs. Upcoming programs are ...

13852 in Ocracoke on January 20-23

13907 in Cullowhee on June 15-19