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1. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Critical Literacies and Graphic Novels for English-Language Learners: Teaching Maus
   Particularly for English-language learners, graphic novels can be used in the secondary classroom as part of a multiliteracies approach.
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   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.
4. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   "It's Not All Black and White": Postmodern Picture Books and New Literacies
   The author of this article demonstrates how postmodern picture books can help readers of various ages, particularly secondary students, use and develop new literacies.
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   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
   Dakin explores different methods for getting students engaged--and excited--about Shakespeare's plays as they learn to construct meaning from the texts' sixteenth-century language and connect it to their twenty-first-century lives.
8. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Teaching YA Lit through Differentiated Instruction
   Authors Susan L. Groenke and Lisa Scherff offer suggestions for incorporating YA lit into the high school curriculum.