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1. 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.
2. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Graphic Novels in the Secondary Classroom and School Libraries
   This article examines the rise in popularity of graphic novels, the sales of which have steadily increased as their influence expands into adolescent culture.
3. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Happily Ever After: Sharing Folk Literature With Elementary and Middle School Students
   This unique text provides background about folk literature and how to use this rich genre in your classroom.
4. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   "Help! What Is Wrong With These Literature Circles and How Can We Fix Them?"
   The authors of this article offer some suggestions for how to improve literature circle discussions.
5. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Radical Change and Wikis: Teaching New Literacies
   Researchers in this study found that students had developed some visual literacy skills using Radical Change texts and wikis.
6. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 10  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content Knowledge
   Heather Lattimer provides practical, classroom-tested approaches to helping students access and critically respond to content-based texts.
7. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Technology That Powers Up Learning
   By designing lessons to activate prior knowledge and linking these activities to reading and writing, teachers found that students were more engaged, that they learned more material more quickly, and that they more willingly incorporated reading into their lives.