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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   K – 3  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Creating Strategic Readers: Techniques for Developing Competency in Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension
   Organized around the five essential components of reading instruction, this text lays the groundwork for a comprehensive literacy classroom.
3. Professional Development | Grades   K – 2  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Environmental Print in the Classroom: Meaningful Connections for Learning to Read
   Learn the many ways you can use environmental print as an instructional tool in your preschool and primary classrooms.
4. Professional Development | Grades   K – 6  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Poets in Practice
   This article discusses the need to engage students and teachers in active poetry writing.
5. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 9  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Power of Picture Books, The: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School
   Featuring descriptions and activities for fifty exceptional titles, Mary Jo Fresch and Peggy Harkins offer a wealth of ideas for harnessing the power of picture books to improve reading and writing in the content areas.
6. Professional Development | Grades   K – 3  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Small-Group Reading Instruction: A Differentiated Teaching Model for Beginning and Struggling Readers
   Easy-to-use lesson plans and activities are included in this book to support five stages of reading development, from emergent to beginning, fledgling, transitional, and finally independent.
7. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading
   This landmark reference offers in-depth exploration of contemporary reading and literacy research.
8. 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.
9. Professional Development | Grades   K – 6  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Wondrous Words: Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom
   Katie Wood Ray explains in practical terms the theoretical underpinnings of how elementary and middle school students learn to write from their reading.