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1. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Building Literacy Connections with Graphic Novels: Page by Page, Panel by Panel
   This collection of essays by classroom teachers demonstrates how to pair graphic novels with classic literature (including both canonical and YA lit).
2. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms
   Amy Benjamin challenges the idea of "skill and drill" grammar instruction, and Tom Oliva provides a teacher's journal chronicling how the concepts in this book can work in a real classroom.
3. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Language Learners in the English Classroom
   This book provides practical, research-based strategies that can help secondary-level English language learners meet the challenges of both language and content learning.
4. 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.
5. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Standards for the English Language Arts
   Standards for the English Language Arts presents a vision of literacy education that encompasses the use of print, oral, and visual language and addresses six interrelated English language arts: reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and visually representing.
6. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Technology That Powers Up Learning
   By designing lessons to activate prior knowledge and linking these activities to reading and writing, teachers found that students were more engaged, that they learned more material more quickly, and that they more willingly incorporated reading into their lives.
7. 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.