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21. 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.
22. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Designing Writing Assignments
    Traci Gardner offers practical tips, starting points, and a companion website to help secondary and college teachers design effective writing assignments.
23. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms
    Amy Benjamin challenges the idea of "skill and drill" grammar instruction, and Tom Oliva provides a teacher's journal chronicling how the concepts in this book can work in a real classroom.
24. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Ethics as a Form of Critical and Rhetorical Inquiry in the Writing Classroom
    What can improve students' engagement in persuasive writing? A strong ethical dilemma and strategies for developing intelligent responses.
25. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Expanding Vision: Teaching Haiku
    Despite common misconceptions about haiku, there is a lively and vibrant haiku community throughout the United States and many other countries. Read this article for further discussion on the use of haiku in your own classroom.
26. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report
    Offers 50 diverse suggestions intended to offer students new ways to think about a piece of literature, new directions to explore, and ways to respond with greater depth to the books they read.
27. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
    Michael Smith and Jeffrey Wilhelm illuminate the intricacies of character, setting, point of view, and theme, helping students apply their understanding of literary elements to their reading as well as their writing.
28. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    From Sheryl Crow to Homer Simpson: Literature and Composition through Pop Culture
    High school teacher Jerome Evans makes popular culture an integral part of his courses. Through analyzing themes in song lyrics, rhetorical devices in essays and advertisements, and psychology in contemporary film, students improve their skills in critical thinking and writing.
29. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Gendered Fictions
    Gendered Fictions helps students explore how fiction and nonfiction texts construct gender by encouraging readers to take up "gendered" reading positions that support or challenge particular versions of masculinity and femininity.
30. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises
    Dunning and Stafford, both widely known poets and educators, offer this delightful manual of exercises for beginning poets.

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