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1. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 12  |  Online Professional Development  |  Web Seminar
   Addressing the Complexity of Matching Readers With Text
   Join Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp as they discuss ways to navigate the complexity of matching readers with text.
2. 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.
   
3. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Alice Walker in the Classroom: "Living by the Word"
   Carol Jago offers readers a handy guide for bringing this celebrated author's work into the classroom, including biographical information, ideas for literature circles using Walker's short stories, sample writing lessons using Walker's poems, suggestions for teaching The Color Purple, and a wealth of resources for further investigation of Alice Walker and her work.
4. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Amy Tan in the Classroom: "The art of invisible strength"
   Offers high school teachers an activity-based approach to teaching the works of Amy Tan, especially The Joy Luck Club and The Opposite of Fate.
5. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Brainstorming and Reviewing Using the Carousel Strategy
   This strategy guide introduces Carousel Brainstorming, also known as Rotating Review, and offers suggestions to implement this technique in your classroom for brainstorming about new topics or reviewing learned information.
6. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto
   Using Animoto, a free Web 2.0 tool, students can develop short digital videos that include music, photos, video clips, and text as well as share their creations electronically.
7. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Close Reading of Literary Texts
   This guide provides strategies for choosing text that is appropriate for close reading and to plan for instruction.
8. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Critical Literacies and Graphic Novels for English-Language Learners: Teaching Maus
   Particularly for English-language learners, graphic novels can be used in the secondary classroom as part of a multiliteracies approach.
9. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Strategy Guide Series
   Developing Academic Vocabulary
   In this Strategy Guide Series, you'll find creative and compatible ways to build, maintain, and extend students' vocabulary across academic disciplines.
10. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Developing Evidence-Based Arguments from Texts
    This strategy guide clarifies the difference between persuasion and argumentation, stressing the connection between close reading of text to gather evidence and formation of a strong argumentative claim about text.

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