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51. 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.
52. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
    Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing
    With full recognition that writing is an increasingly multifaceted activity, we offer several principles that should guide effective teaching practice.
53. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 10  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content Knowledge
    Heather Lattimer provides practical, classroom-tested approaches to helping students access and critically respond to content-based texts.
54. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other Nonfiction Texts
    John Golden offers middle and high school teachers a practical guide for using documentary film in the classroom to improve students' reading, writing, and thinking skills.
55. 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.
56. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Re-envisioning Research
    Describes a research paper in the author's high school English classroom which connected to the lives and interests of students, who delved into community problems with as much rigor (and using many types of research as traditional essays exploring arcane philosophical questions). Describes creating a context for exploration, and students' final projects.
57. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Research Matters: What Kinds of Classroom Discussion Promote Reading Comprehension?
    "Research Matters" provides teachers with review and application of research that illuminates the daily concerns and activities of English language arts teachers and classrooms.
58. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
    Resolution on Composing with Nonprint Media
    This resolution explains what educators can do to work with young people composing nonprint media that can include any combination of visual art, motion (video and film), graphics, text, and sound -- all of which are frequently written and read in nonlinear fashion.
59. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
    Resolution on Promoting Media Literacy
    This resolution discusses that understanding the new media and using them constructively and creatively actually requires developing a new form of literacy and new critical abilities "in reading, listening, viewing, and thinking."
60. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Roots and Branches: A Resource of Native American Literature
    This valuable resource book offers teachers an opportunity to learn and to teach about Native American literatures in context. Susag examines the historical and literary contexts that frame the literary work of Native peoples.

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