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1. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   A Failure of the Imagination
   This article discusses the imaginative activities and assignments that teachers often assign that violate the text around which the lesson is focused and that mislead students about its meaning.
   
2. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Alternative Book Reports
   This article describes different ways that students can report on books they have read other than the traditional "book report."
3. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar Instruction
   Kenneth Lindblom and Patricia A. Dunn teach language awareness and use through published complaints about the teaching of grammar. Students are able to recognize issues of race and class that determine acceptable usage and learn the importance of audience in their own language use.
4. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   At the Crossroads of Expertise: The Risky Business of Teaching Popular Culture
   Two professors argue that incorporating forms of popular culture into the classroom provides a meeting place where students and teachers can share their expertise. They support the argument with examples of activities and projects.
5. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School's Effects on Reading
   This article summarizes and explicates research on 272 twelfth-grade students' reading autobiographies. Cope quotes from some noteworthy comments and makes some suggestions on how teachers and schools might do a better job of teaching literature.
6. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Building Community through Poetry: A Role for Imagination in the Classroom
   Methods such as the circle poem, the "poetic interview," the found poem, and the poetic field trip are just some used by the author to create an atmosphere of mutual support and enable students to initiate "imaginative possibilities."
7. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Ethics as a Form of Critical and Rhetorical Inquiry in the Writing Classroom
   What can improve students' engagement in persuasive writing? A strong ethical dilemma and strategies for developing intelligent responses.
8. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Expanding Vision: Teaching Haiku
   Despite common misconceptions about haiku, there is a lively and vibrant haiku community throughout the United States and many other countries. Read this article for further discussion on the use of haiku in your own classroom.
9. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report
   Offers 50 diverse suggestions intended to offer students new ways to think about a piece of literature, new directions to explore, and ways to respond with greater depth to the books they read.
10. 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.

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