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- Professional Development | Grades K – 8 | Professional Library | Book
Teaching and Learning Multiliteracies: Changing Times, Changing Literacies
This book shows you how to move away from reliance exclusively on print and incorporate multiliteracies into your classroom. - 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. - Professional Development | Grades K – 12 | Professional Library | Book
Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension
Nagy describes the three methods of vocabulary instruction that most effectively improve comprehension and the teaching methods that employ them. - Professional Development | Grades 5 – 9 | Professional Library | Journal
Technology in the Language Arts classroom: Is It Worth the Trouble?
Suggests the authentic audience found on the Internet has a profound effect on the quality of student writing in all grades, and that the key to successful technology projects is integrating them into the curriculum so that computers are a means, not an end. Offers ideas for classroom activities and projects using stand-alone computers, and using computers with Internet access. - Professional Development | Grades 5 – 8 | Professional Library | Journal
Technology That Powers Up Learning
By designing lessons to activate prior knowledge and linking these activities to reading and writing, teachers found that students were more engaged, that they learned more material more quickly, and that they more willingly incorporated reading into their lives. - Professional Development | Grades 3 – 12 | Professional Library | Journal
Ten Important Words Plus: A Strategy for Building Word Knowledge
The strategy presented in this article can be used to build and enrich students' understanding of words in any subject area. - Professional Development | Grades 4 – 12 | Professional Library | Book
Text Complexity: Raising Rigor in Reading
Selecting appropriate reading material for students is hard. For decades, teachers have known that quality instruction requires a careful matching of materials to students. The goal is to select materials that are neither too difficult nor too easy for students--a phenomenon sometimes called the Goldilocks Rule. - Professional Development | Grades K – 12 | Professional Library | Book
The Literacy Coach's Desk Reference: Processes and Perspectives for Effective Coaching
Cathy Toll offers practical information for pre-K–12 literacy coaches on conferencing with individual teachers and groups, as well as on providing demonstration lessons, services to entire schools, and services to students. - Professional Development | Grades 5 – 9 | Professional Library | Journal
The Literature Circle: Reading Like a Writer
Reading internalizes every aspect of good writing—if you're reading good writing, which most middle school textbooks aren't. Here are criteria and suggestions for good content-area articles and trade nonfiction books. - Professional Development | Grades 5 – 8 | Professional Library | Journal
The Middle School High Five: Strategies Can Triumph
A literacy support teacher leads a district-wide initiative to organize content-area teachers in an effort to help their students become better readers by offering instruction and practice in five reading strategies across the curriculum.