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81. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Using Children's Literature to Spark Learning
    Presents two brief articles--the first discusses purposes for using children's picture books in a secondary classroom, activities for children's literature, and integrating children's books into the classroom curriculum; and the second discusses using folktales in the classroom to engage reluctant readers and writers, suggests ideas/topics for folktale writing projects, lists writing prompts, and recommends folktales.
82. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Using Short Story Collections to Enrich the English Classroom
    Describes ways short story collections can be integrated into the English curriculum, including a short story fair, a short story hunt, using single short stories to extend a unit, using a short story by itself, using a collection as a whole, and using short stories as part of a focus on writing. Offers a list of short story resources.
83. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Walking the Talk: Examining Privilege and Race in a Ninth-Grade Classroom
    The authors describe their struggles and eventual success with students in constructing a "counternarrative to colormuteness and colorblindness"—the self-imposed student segregation and silencing of voice.
84. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Walk with Light: Guiding Students through the Conventions of Literary Analysis
    Burdan shares some common misconceptions surrounding literary analysis and describes activities that help students understand "the play of language."
85. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    What Is "College-Level" Writing?
    Just what defines "college-level" writing? This collection seeks to engage this essential question with care, patience, and pragmatism.
86. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    What Is "College-Level" Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings, and Student Writing Samples
    Edited by Patrick Sullivan, Howard Tinberg, and Sheridan Blau, this sequel to What Is "College-Level" Writing? (2006) highlights the practical aspects of teaching writing.
87. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    What Works in Writing Instruction: Research and Practices
    Through teacher-friendly language and classroom examples, Deborah Dean takes a close look at effective, research-based practices for writing instruction.
88. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Wordplaygrounds: Reading, Writing, and Performing Poetry in the English Classroom
    O'Connor offers new approaches to teaching poetry in middle and high school with more than 25 writing activities that can constitute an entire course or work as individual lessons.
89. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Writing about Literature, 2nd ed., Revised and Updated
    This book is intended to help middle and secondary school English language arts teachers integrate literature study and composition instruction.
90. Professional Development | Grades   11 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Writing at the Threshold: Featuring 56 Ways to Prepare High School and College Students to Think and Write at the College Level
    This book offers both an eloquent philosophy of composition instruction and a useful set of classroom-tested teaching ideas distilled from the author's 28 years of teaching writing.

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