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- Professional Development | Grades K – 8 | Professional Library | Book
The Writing Workshop: Working through the Hard Parts (And They're All Hard Parts)
A practical, comprehensive, and illuminating guide for both new and experienced teachers that confronts the challenges of the writing workshop head-on. - Professional Development | Grades 5 – 9 | Professional Library | Journal
To Grammar or Not to Grammar: That Is Not the Question!
Argues that, taught in the context of writing, grammar can enhance and improve students' writing. Offers classroom examples showing how: good preparation for writing fosters good grammar and detail; students can use grammatical and syntactic constructions used by professional authors as models for their own writing; and how to help students learn revision strategies at the sentence and paragraph level. - Professional Development | Grades K – 8 | Professional Library | Book
Trading Cards to Comic Strips: Popular Culture Texts and Literacy Learning in Grades K-8
This resource shows how to use television, movies, video games, music, magazines, and other media to motivate students and enhance literacy learning. - Professional Development | Grades 5 – 9 | Professional Library | Journal
Undoing the Great Grammatical Scam
Grammar should be taught in the context of students' own writing: "we learn what we actually have the opportunity to practice and do in the real world." - Professional Development | Grades K – 8 | Professional Library | Journal
Violent Red, Ogre Green, and Delicious White: Expanding Meaning Potential through Media
This article reports on the meaning potential of daily access to drawing/writing media for widening and deepening meaning construction. - Professional Development | Grades 7 – 12 | Professional Library | Journal
Walk with Light: Guiding Students through the Conventions of Literary Analysis
Burdan shares some common misconceptions surrounding literary analysis and describes activities that help students understand "the play of language." - Professional Development | Grades K – 12 | Professional Library | Book
What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction
This respected volume presents a range of research and instructional perspectives in the area of reading. - Professional Development | Grades 7 – 12 | Professional Library | Book
What Works in Writing Instruction: Research and Practices
Through teacher-friendly language and classroom examples, Deborah Dean takes a close look at effective, research-based practices for writing instruction. - Professional Development | Grades 7 – 12 | Professional Library
What Works in Writing Instruction: Research and Practices
- Professional Development | Grades 7 – 12 | Professional Library | Book
Wordplaygrounds: Reading, Writing, and Performing Poetry in the English Classroom
O'Connor offers new approaches to teaching poetry in middle and high school with more than 25 writing activities that can constitute an entire course or work as individual lessons.