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1. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Being and Becoming: Multilingual Writers' Practices
   This study examines the writing practices taken on and negotiated by multilingual class members within two multiage elementary classrooms.
2. 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.
3. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Different Texts, Different Emergent Writing Forms
   Examines young children's ability to vary the forms of emergent writing as they wrote a story, a shopping list, and a letter to a friend at three different times during the school year. Finds that children apply their emergent knowledge about written language differently. Indicates a considerable mismatch between written products and knowledge of genre characteristics.
4. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Exploring the Past through Multigenre Writing
   Research comes alive when students explore a range of alternate genres instead of writing the traditional research report.
5. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 9  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Finding the Thread: Character, Setting, and Theme
   An annotated bibliography of books that exemplify the plot elements, character, setting, and theme. Includes guidelines on how to do a book talk.
6. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 9  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   "Framing Texts: New Strategies for Student Writers"
   Using children's picture books, Deborah Dean provided frameworks for student research papers that avoided the pitfalls leading to voiceless and encyclopedic writing. Research guide sheets; class analysis of text organization, sentence variety, stylistic choices; and peer review all contribute to interesting final papers.
7. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Fresh Perspectives on New Literacies and Technology Integration
   This article provides practical ideas for integrating technologies into the classroom in ways that honor students' out-of-school technology funds of knowledge.
8. Professional Development | Grades   K – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   "Genre Studies"
   In this issue you will read about elementary children who are introduced to genre primarily through their teachers reading aloud. The children are invited to become inquirers who continue to explore books as they meet in small groups to write and read on their own—from fantasy to African folktales to poetry.
9. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Inquiry at the Window: The Year of the Birds
   This science inquiry in a fourth-grade classroom affirms the importance of observation, questioning, reading, and writing to the inquiry process.
10. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Joyful Noises: Creating Poems for Voices and Ears
    This article discusses the efforts of a fifth-grade teacher and a visiting poet to rekindle students' sense of poetic passion and pleasure and describes how the authors introduced students to poems for two voices.

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