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1. Professional Development | Grades   K – 6  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Acting Out: Literature, Drama, and Connecting With History
   This article describes a successful teacher-professor collaboration to plan interdisciplinary curriculum and team-teach it in a first-grade classroom.
2. 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.
3. Professional Development | Grades   K – 6  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Literacy + Math = Creative Connections in the Elementary Classroom
   This book details the importance of establishing a literacy-mathematics connection for students and offers suggestions and ideas for improving math skills while fostering literacy growth.
4. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Paraphrasing: An Effective Comprehension Strategy
   In this article, the author explains what paraphrasing is and how it can increase student's comprehension.
5. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   SEARCHing for an Answer: The Critical Role of New Literacies While Reading on the Internet
   This article shows how to integrate a "SEARCH" framework to help students develop the new literacy skills that reading on the Internet requires.
6. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Semiotic Representations: Building Complex Literacy Practices Through the Arts
   Include visual arts, drama, and movement in English language arts instruction to increase students' understanding and motivation.
7. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Violent Red, Ogre Green, and Delicious White: Expanding Meaning Potential through Media
   This article reports on the meaning potential of daily access to drawing/writing media for widening and deepening meaning construction.