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- Professional Development | Grades 8 – 12 | Professional Library | Book
Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
This collection of lesson plans will help prepare high school and college students for college-level writing. - Professional Development | Grades K – 8 | Professional Library | Journal
Let's Go to the Movies: Rethinking the Role of Film in the Elementary Classroom
Argues that elementary language-arts teachers should expand their definition of "text" to include film, a valuable instructional material. Notes that today's elementary students come to class with a great deal of knowledge about films--prior experiences which teachers can tap into. Discusses the application to film of reader-response theories. - 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. - Professional Development | Grades 6 – 8 | Professional Library | Book
Living Voices: Multicultural Poetry in the Middle School Classroom
Jaime Wood offers middle school English language arts teachers material for teaching poetry by Nikki Giovanni, Li-Young Lee, and Pat Mora; the text includes graphic organizers and other resources. - Professional Development | Grades 5 – 9 | Professional Library | Journal
Menu Magic!
This article helps eighth graders review the power of adjectives. Students eat up this project that promises to deliver the opportunity to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate while giving students the chance to work in cooperative groups. All in all, it's an appetizing way to get kids focused on descriptive writing. - Professional Development | Grades 8 – 12 | Professional Library | Journal
Multigenre, Multiple Intelligences, and Transcendentalism
Colleen A. Ruggieri offers a multigenre, mulltiple intelligences unit on transcendentalism complete with suggested texts and an assessment plan. - Professional Development | Grades 5 – 9 | Professional Library | Journal
Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Using texts that first meet the reading "levels" of middle school students, then offering increasingly challenging books, teachers can group students at all levels using multiple texts. Strategy logs and conferences are two of the successful tools teachers use to increase comprehension as well as critical reading skills. - Professional Development | Grades K – 12 | Professional Library | Position Statement
NCTE Position Statement on Reading
In order to make sure that all individuals have access to the personal pleasures and intellectual benefits of full literacy, NCTE created the NCTE Position Statement on Reading in February of 1999. - Professional Development | Grades K – 12 | Professional Library | Position Statement
New Literacies and 21st-Century Technologies
IRA's position on recognizing an expanded conception of literacy and supporting learners as they use and interact with information and communication technologies. - Professional Development | Grades K – 8 | Professional Library | Journal
Nonfiction Inquiry: Using Real Reading and Writing to Explore the World
Nonfiction is the genre most likely to spur children's passion and wonder for learning. This article discusses way to motivate children to read nonfiction.