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71. 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.
72. 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.
73. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Radical Change and Wikis: Teaching New Literacies
    Researchers in this study found that students had developed some visual literacy skills using Radical Change texts and wikis.
74. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Reader Response Meets New Literacies: Empowering Readers in Online Learning Communities
    New literacies are here to stay. This article explores the use of e-books and online literature circles.
75. 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.
76. 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.
77. 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.
78. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Recentering the Middle School Classroom as a Vibrant Learning Community: Students, Literacy, and Technology Intersect
    Examine the ways in which community can be constructed in the middle school classroom using online electronic discussions of literature.
79. 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.
80. 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."

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