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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   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Developing Academic Thinking Skills in Grades 6-12: A Handbook of Multiple Intelligence Activities
   These skill-based activities will help students develop the academic thinking skills and language to understand challenging content concepts.
3. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Literacy Remix: Bridging Adolescents' In and Out of School Literacies
   This resources promotes the use new literacies to help students connect to school texts.
4. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Reading & Writing & Teens: A Parent's Guide to Adolescent Literacy
   Offering advice from a host of experts in adolescent literacy, this book helps answer real questions from parents across the country about how to best support their teens as readers and writers.
5. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Teaching Reading with YA Literature: Complex Texts, Complex Lives
   This book is designed to help teachers develop their own version of YA pedagogy and a vision for teaching YA lit in the middle and secondary classroom.
6. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Tim O'Brien in the Classroom: "This too is true: Stories can save us"
   As part of the NCTE High School Literature Series, Tim O'Brien in the Classroom focuses on opportunities for classroom discussion and writing assignments, including lessons, open-ended prompts, and student writing samples.