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1. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   A Failure of the Imagination
   This article discusses the imaginative activities and assignments that teachers often assign that violate the text around which the lesson is focused and that mislead students about its meaning.
   
2. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Motivating Young Writers Through Write-Talks: Real Writers, Real Audiences, Real Purposes
   This article describes the use of "write-talks," brief motivational talks designed to engage students in writing.
3. 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.
4. 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.