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1. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Conversation: The Comprehension Connection
   Conversation provides opportunities for students to practice and use cognitive strategies, and is critical for developing comprehension.
2. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Engaging the Disengaged: Using Learning Clubs to Motivate Struggling Adolescent Readers and Writers
   This article describes the use of learning clubs to motivate struggling students to engage in literacy events and foster literacy development.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Writing Our Communities: Local Learning and Public Culture
   Student engagement with community becomes the centerpiece of the book, an engagement that takes place across disciplines through projects involving history, environment, culture, and much more.