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51. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Substitute Teachers' Lesson Plans
    This book suggests ideas for meaningful, short-term classroom activities, with an emphasis on the processes of speaking, listening, and writing in the classroom.
52. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards: English Language Arts, Grades 3-5
    This practical, supportive book begins with an overview of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), addressing some frequently asked questions and concerns about them. Then, the heart of the book features vignettes of six grade 3–5 classroom teachers from a diverse range of schools, sharing their innovative lesson ideas and showing how they address the CCSS in concert with the deliberate, student-centered teaching and learning choices they already make.
53. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Teaching and Learning Multiliteracies: Changing Times, Changing Literacies
    This book shows you how to move away from reliance exclusively on print and incorporate multiliteracies into your classroom.
54. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension
    Nagy describes the three methods of vocabulary instruction that most effectively improve comprehension and the teaching methods that employ them.
55. Professional Development | Grades   4 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Text Complexity: Raising Rigor in Reading
    Selecting appropriate reading material for students is hard. For decades, teachers have known that quality instruction requires a careful matching of materials to students. The goal is to select materials that are neither too difficult nor too easy for students--a phenomenon sometimes called the Goldilocks Rule.
56. 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.
57. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading
    This landmark reference offers in-depth exploration of contemporary reading and literacy research.
58. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    The (Un)Making of a Reader
    Through looking critically at the underpinnings of "story mapping, a teacher uncovers a contradiction between the author's definition of reading as a constructive process and the reductionist nature of story mapping, which she shows inhibits students' potential to explore a diverse range of personal responses by promoting comprehension over response, uniformity over diversity, and control over freedom.
59. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing
    It's been said that mediocre writers borrow while great writers steal. Teach your students to be great writers with over 90 practical ideas for using mentor texts and the traits to teach informational, narrative and persuasive writing to elementary students.
60. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Trading Cards to Comic Strips: Popular Culture Texts and Literacy Learning in Grades K-8
    This resource shows how to use television, movies, video games, music, magazines, and other media to motivate students and enhance literacy learning.

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