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1. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
   Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
   This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use.
2. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises
   Dunning and Stafford, both widely known poets and educators, offer this delightful manual of exercises for beginning poets.
3. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Let's Go to the Movies: Rethinking the Role of Film in the Elementary Classroom
   Argues that elementary language-arts teachers should expand their definition of "text" to include film, a valuable instructional material. Notes that today's elementary students come to class with a great deal of knowledge about films--prior experiences which teachers can tap into. Discusses the application to film of reader-response theories.
4. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
   Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies
   This position on Multimodal Literacies is a summary statement developed by the Multimodal Literacies Issue Management Team of the NCTE Executive Committee.
5. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
   Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing
   With full recognition that writing is an increasingly multifaceted activity, we offer several principles that should guide effective teaching practice.
6. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
   Resolution on Composing with Nonprint Media
   This resolution explains what educators can do to work with young people composing nonprint media that can include any combination of visual art, motion (video and film), graphics, text, and sound -- all of which are frequently written and read in nonlinear fashion.
7. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
   Resolution on Promoting Media Literacy
   This resolution discusses that understanding the new media and using them constructively and creatively actually requires developing a new form of literacy and new critical abilities "in reading, listening, viewing, and thinking."