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1. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
   A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways to Support Teachers in Meeting Students' Needs
   This document provides a research-based resource that acknowledges the complexities of reading as a developmental process and addresses the needs of secondary readers and their teachers.
2. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Accent on Meter: A Handbook for Readers of Poetry
   Accent on meter: A Handbook for Readers of Poetry offers practical ways of teaching students about the close connections between the meaning, rhythm, and meter in poetry.
3. 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.
   
4. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar Instruction
   Kenneth Lindblom and Patricia A. Dunn teach language awareness and use through published complaints about the teaching of grammar. Students are able to recognize issues of race and class that determine acceptable usage and learn the importance of audience in their own language use.
5. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Building Community through Poetry: A Role for Imagination in the Classroom
   Methods such as the circle poem, the "poetic interview," the found poem, and the poetic field trip are just some used by the author to create an atmosphere of mutual support and enable students to initiate "imaginative possibilities."
6. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning
   This book helps educators unlock Internet and digital media resources to classrooms while respecting the rights of copyright holders.
7. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
   This collection of lesson plans will help prepare high school and college students for college-level writing.
8. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Studying Literature: New Approaches to Poetry and Fiction
   The book includes a variety of literary texts, along with accessible discussions and stimulating exercises to help students investigate the values, assumptions, and practices that underlie literary activity.
9. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   The Literacy Coach's Desk Reference: Processes and Perspectives for Effective Coaching
   Cathy Toll offers practical information for pre-K–12 literacy coaches on conferencing with individual teachers and groups, as well as on providing demonstration lessons, services to entire schools, and services to students.
10. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    To Kill a Mockingbird in the Classroom: Walking in Someone Else's Shoes
    This book examines ways of engaging students as they study Harper Lee's novel. Included are collaborative learning, discussion, writing, and inquiry-based projects as well as activities related to the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird.