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1. 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.
2. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Language and Literacy: The Poetry Connection
   Offers a conceptual framework for building language awareness through the reading of poetry, encouraging children to reflect on language in interesting and powerful ways. Provides an instructional model for constructing literature-based experiences in the classroom.
3. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Sound and Sense in Children's Picturebooks
   Explores (from the point of view of the writer, a children's author) one aspect of learning about language that is present in the picture books he writes: the relation between sound and sense.