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- Professional Development | Grades 3 – 12 | Professional Library | Position Statement
Resolution on Promoting Media Literacy
This resolution discusses that understanding the new media and using them constructively and creatively actually requires developing a new form of literacy and new critical abilities "in reading, listening, viewing, and thinking." - Professional Development | Grades 9 – 12 | Professional Library | Book
Risking Intensity: Reading and Writing Poetry with High School Students
Judith Michaels approaches the subject of the self at both the personal and practical levels, opening the world of poetry to her classes through carefully planned strategies. - Professional Development | Grades 7 – 12 | Professional Library | Book
Roots and Branches: A Resource of Native American Literature
This valuable resource book offers teachers an opportunity to learn and to teach about Native American literatures in context. Susag examines the historical and literary contexts that frame the literary work of Native peoples. - Professional Development | Grades 8 – 12 | Professional Library
Sandra Cisneros in the Classroom: "Do not forget to reach"
The third volume in the NCTE High School Literature Series explores the joys of reading and teaching the stories and poems of noted Mexican American author Sandra Cisneros. - Professional Development | Grades K – 12 | Professional Library | Position Statement
Second-Language Literacy Instruction
This position statement offers recommendations on ways to support second-language learners. - Professional Development | Grades 9 – 12 | Professional Library | Journal
Sharing Stories and Developing Multiple Perspectives in Post-9/11 Classrooms
Sensitive to the increased importance of valuing diversity and diverse points of view since 9/11, this article describes activities through which ESL students contribute new knowledge to their classes while simultaneously improving their English language skills. - Professional Development | Grades 8 – 12 | Professional Library | Book
Sherman Alexie in the Classroom: "This is not a silent movie. Our voices will save our lives."
Provides high school teachers with teaching strategies, classroom activities, and student samples for teaching the works of Sherman Alexie. - Professional Development | Grades 5 – 9 | Professional Library | Journal
Spelling: From Invention to Strategies
Veteran educator Howard Miller shares a set of strategies that can propel middle school writers (and "inventive" spellers) into the role of being responsible and strategic in this Voices from the Middle article. - 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. - Professional Development | Grades 5 – 9 | Professional Library | Journal
Stop Pretending and Think about Plot
Jago offers a review of Freytag's Pyramid and an example of how work with the concept of plot structure positively affected student understanding and writing.