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1. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   360 Degrees of Text: Using Poetry to Teach Close Reading and Powerful Writing
   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.
   
2. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Position Statement
   A Call to Action: What We Know About Adolescent Literacy and Ways to Support Teachers in Meeting Students’ Needs
   This document provides a research-based resource that acknowledges the complexities of reading as a developmental process and addresses the needs of secondary readers and their teachers.
3. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   A Failure of the Imagination
   This article discusses the imaginative activities and assignments that teachers often assign that violate the text around which the lesson is focused and that mislead students about its meaning.
   
4. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Alternative Book Reports
   This article describes different ways that students can report on books they have read other than the traditional “book report.”
5. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar Instruction
   Kenneth Lindblom and Patricia A. Dunn teach language awareness and use through published complaints about the teaching of grammar. Students are able to recognize issues of race and class that determine acceptable usage and learn the importance of audience in their own language use.
6. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   At the Crossroads of Expertise: The Risky Business of Teaching Popular Culture
   Two professors argue that incorporating forms of popular culture into the classroom provides a meeting place where students and teachers can share their expertise. They support the argument with examples of activities and projects.
7. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Authentic Assessments for the English Classroom
   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.
8. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Authoring With Video
   Use a video-based platform as an inspiration for writing.
9. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Beyond Standardized Truth: Improving Teaching and Learning through Inquiry-Based Reading Assessment
   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.
10. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School's Effects on Reading
    This article summarizes and explicates research on 272 twelfth-grade students' reading autobiographies. Cope quotes from some noteworthy comments and makes some suggestions on how teachers and schools might do a better job of teaching literature.

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