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        <title><![CDATA[Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Written with the Common Core State Standards firmly in mind, this book presents a much-needed instructional model for disciplinary literacy. ]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Doug Buehl</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[eVoc Strategies: 10 Ways to Use Technology to Build Vocabulary]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Drawing on research-based principles of vocabulary instruction and multimedia learning, this article presents 10 eVoc strategies that use free digital tools and Internet resources to evoke students' engaged vocabulary learning.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Bridget Dalton, Dana L. Grisham</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Exploring the Use of the iPad for Literacy Learning]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The goal of this investigation was to explore how a fourth grade teacher could integrate iPads into her literacy instruction to simultaneously teach print-based and digital literacy goals. ]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Amy Hutchison, Beth Beschorner, Denise Schmidt-Crawford</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Beyond Standardized Truth: Improving Teaching and Learning through Inquiry-Based Reading Assessment]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Scott Filkins brings us into his and colleagues' classrooms to demonstrate how high school teachers across the disciplines can engage in inquiry-based reading assessment to support student learning. This book is part of the NCTE Principles in Practice imprint.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards: English Language Arts, Grades PreK-2]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This book provides insights and resources for teachers, administrators, and policymakers working with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) by championing a critical perspective and teaching that promote students’ development as competent and critical problem solvers. ]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Susi Long, William Hutchinson, Justine Neiderhiser</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards: English Language Arts, Grades 3-5]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Jeff Williams, Elizabeth Homan, Sarah Swofford</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards: English Language Arts, Grades 6-8]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This book takes you into the classrooms of middle school and junior high teachers who are meeting the demands of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) while staying true to their students and to their own knowledge of what constitutes effective, student-centered teaching.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Tonya Perry, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards: English Language Arts, Grades 9-12]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This book reinforces a focus on student learning by demonstrating ways of addressing the Common Core State Standards in grades 9-12 while also adhering to NCTE principles of effective teaching.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Sarah Brown Wessling</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[360 Degrees of Text: Using Poetry to Teach Close Reading and Powerful Writing]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Through Eileen Murphy Buckley’s 360-degree approach to teaching critical literacy, students investigate texts through a full spectrum of learning modalities, harnessing the excitement of performance, imitation, creative writing, and argument/debate activities to become more powerful thinkers, readers, and writers.
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        <dc:creator>Eileen Murphy Buckley</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ethics as a Form of Critical and Rhetorical Inquiry in the Writing Classroom]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[What can improve students’ engagement in persuasive writing? A strong ethical dilemma and strategies for developing intelligent responses.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Teresa Henning, Ph.D</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Middle School High Five: Strategies Can Triumph]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A literacy support teacher leads a district-wide initiative to organize content-area teachers in an effort to help their students become better readers by offering instruction and practice in five reading strategies across the curriculum.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Amy Goodman</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Acting Out: Literature, Drama, and Connecting With History]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This article describes a successful teacher-professor collaboration to plan interdisciplinary curriculum and team-teach it in a first-grade classroom.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>John Kornfeld, Georgia Leyden</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rope Them in With Hand Gestures]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Using hand gestures is a great way to get students engaged in learning and more focused on reading comprehension strategies.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Graphic Novels in the Secondary Classroom and School Libraries]]></title>

        <link>http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/professional-library/graphic-novels-secondary-classroom-30696.html</link>
        <pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This article examines the rise in popularity of graphic novels, the sales of which have steadily increased as their influence expands into adolescent culture.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Poets in Practice]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This article discusses the need to engage students and teachers in active poetry writing.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Michelann Parr, Terry Campbell</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Building a Foundation for Preschool Literacy: Effective Instruction for Children’s Reading and Writing Development (Second Edition)]]></title>

        <link>http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/professional-library/building-foundation-preschool-literacy-30688.html</link>
        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This book focuses on best practices for providing preschoolers with early literacy instruction.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Carol Vukelich, James Christie</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Marvelous Minilessons for Teaching Intermediate Writing, Grades 4-6]]></title>

        <link>http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/professional-library/marvelous-minilessons-teaching-intermediate-30684.html</link>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This book contains 40 minilessons specifically tailored for helping intermediate students learn to write.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Lori Jamison Rog</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[e-Reading and e-Responding: New Tools for the Next Generation of Readers]]></title>

        <link>http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/professional-library/reading-responding-tools-next-30673.html</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Contemporary transformations in digital technologies have prompted a reassessment of what literacy means and what is determined a “text.” Traditionally, text has been perceived as written messages and symbols in the forms of books, magazines, and newspapers. Today, text is recognized as much more than written words or images.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Textmasters: Bringing literature circles to textbook reading across the curriculum]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A fifth-grade science teacher and university researcher challenged the notion that textbook reading follows the same archaic formula: read the textbook and answer the questions at the end of the section. Together, they adapted literature circle roles to fit textbook structures, resulting in the strategy they call Textmasters. This article describes the strategy, along with the action research project that proves its efficacy in the content area middle school classroom.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Implementing Readers Theatre as an approach to classroom fluency instruction]]></title>

        <link>http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/professional-library/implementing-readers-theatre-approach-30676.html</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This article describes how Readers Theatre was implemented as an engaging means for reading fluency instruction in a second-grade classroom.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Editors Mary T. Christel and Scott Sullivan present a new set of lessons designed to help you integrate a variety of digital applications—Web 2.0 and beyond—into the courses and units you’re already teaching.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Mary T. Christel, Scott Sullivan</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Authentic Assessments for the English Classroom]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Joanna Dolgin, Kim Kelly, and Sarvenaz Zelkha offer real-world examples, sample student work, step-by-step instructions, and handouts to help teachers incorporate authentic forms of assessment into the middle and high school curriculum.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Joanna Dolgin, Kim Kelly, Sarvenaz Zelkha</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Teaching YA Lit through Differentiated Instruction]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Authors Susan L. Groenke and Lisa Scherff offer suggestions for incorporating YA lit into the high school curriculum.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Susan L. Groenke, Lisa Scherff</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[What Is “College-Level” Writing? Volume 2: Assignments, Readings, and Student Writing Samples]]></title>

        <link>http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/professional-library/what-college-level-writing-a-30710.html</link>
        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Patrick Sullivan, Sheridan Blau, Howard Tinberg &amp;#40;editors&amp;#41;</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content Knowledge]]></title>

        <link>http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/professional-library/reading-learning-using-discipline-30712.html</link>
        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Heather Lattimer provides practical, classroom-tested approaches to helping students access and critically respond to content-based texts.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Heather Lattimer</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[What Works in Writing Instruction: Research and Practices]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Through teacher-friendly language and classroom examples, Deborah Dean takes a close look at effective, research-based practices for writing instruction.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Deborah Dean</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Digital Readers: The Next Chapter in E-Book Reading and Response]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This article discusses the use of digital e-book readers in the classroom.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Lotta C. Larson, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Reading & Writing & Teens: A Parent’s Guide to Adolescent Literacy]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Cathy Fleischer, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Guided Comprehension in the Primary Grades]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The popular Guided Comprehension instructional framework is tailored to the primary-grade classroom and updated in this second edition printing.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Maureen McLaughlin</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Going Bohemian: How to Teach Writing Like You Mean It]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This resource offers unconventional strategies to guide students through some of the more difficult tasks in learning to write.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Lawrence Baines, Anthony Kunkel</dc:creator>
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