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1. Professional Development | Grades   K – 3  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Creating Strategic Readers: Techniques for Developing Competency in Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension
   Organized around the five essential components of reading instruction, this text lays the groundwork for a comprehensive literacy classroom.
2. Professional Development | Grades   K – 2  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Environmental Print in the Classroom: Meaningful Connections for Learning to Read
   Learn the many ways you can use environmental print as an instructional tool in your preschool and primary classrooms.
3. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Exploring the Past through Multigenre Writing
   Research comes alive when students explore a range of alternate genres instead of writing the traditional research report.
4. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 9  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Finding the Thread: Character, Setting, and Theme
   An annotated bibliography of books that exemplify the plot elements, character, setting, and theme. Includes guidelines on how to do a book talk.
5. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Great Films and How to Teach Them
   Costanzo offers high school and college teachers an updated, expanded edition that contains 80% new material on teaching film, including study guides of 14 new film with relevant ways to engage their students through a medium that students know and love.
6. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Nonfiction Inquiry: Using Real Reading and Writing to Explore the World
   Nonfiction is the genre most likely to spur children's passion and wonder for learning. This article discusses way to motivate children to read nonfiction.
7. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom
   In this practical guide, John Golden makes direct links between film and literary study by addressing reading strategies (e.g., predicting, responding, questioning) and key aspects of textual analysis.
8. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Reading & Writing & Teens: A Parent's Guide to Adolescent Literacy
   Offering advice from a host of experts in adolescent literacy, this book helps answer real questions from parents across the country about how to best support their teens as readers and writers.
9. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Reciprocal Teaching at Work: Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension (2nd Edition)
   With many practical lessons, this book shows how to use reciprocal teaching in a variety of classroom settings to enhance students' reading comprehension.
10. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Re-envisioning Research
    Describes a research paper in the author's high school English classroom which connected to the lives and interests of students, who delved into community problems with as much rigor (and using many types of research as traditional essays exploring arcane philosophical questions). Describes creating a context for exploration, and students' final projects.