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- 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. - Professional Development | Grades K – 8 | Professional Library | Journal
The (Un)Making of a Reader
Through looking critically at the underpinnings of "story mapping, a teacher uncovers a contradiction between the author's definition of reading as a constructive process and the reductionist nature of story mapping, which she shows inhibits students' potential to explore a diverse range of personal responses by promoting comprehension over response, uniformity over diversity, and control over freedom. - 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 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 8 – 12 | Professional Library | Journal
Using Children's Literature to Spark Learning
Presents two brief articles--the first discusses purposes for using children's picture books in a secondary classroom, activities for children's literature, and integrating children's books into the classroom curriculum; and the second discusses using folktales in the classroom to engage reluctant readers and writers, suggests ideas/topics for folktale writing projects, lists writing prompts, and recommends folktales. - Professional Development | Grades 8 – 12 | Professional Library | Journal
Using Short Story Collections to Enrich the English Classroom
Describes ways short story collections can be integrated into the English curriculum, including a short story fair, a short story hunt, using single short stories to extend a unit, using a short story by itself, using a collection as a whole, and using short stories as part of a focus on writing. Offers a list of short story resources. - 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 8 – 12 | Professional Library | Journal
Walking the Talk: Examining Privilege and Race in a Ninth-Grade Classroom
The authors describe their struggles and eventual success with students in constructing a "counternarrative to colormuteness and colorblindness"—the self-imposed student segregation and silencing of voice. - 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."