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1. Professional Development | Grades   K – 6  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Acting Out: Literature, Drama, and Connecting With History
   This article describes a successful teacher-professor collaboration to plan interdisciplinary curriculum and team-teach it in a first-grade classroom.
2. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Acting Out: Literature, Drama, and Connecting With History
   The article includes recommendations for teachers interested in integrating literature, drama, and history.
3. Professional Development | Grades   2 – 7  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Creating Lifelong Readers Through Independent Reading
   This book provides information on the benefits of independent reading, how to set up a classroom library, and ways to actively engage students in independent reading.
4. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Going Bohemian: How to Teach Writing Like You Mean It
   This resource offers unconventional strategies to guide students through some of the more difficult tasks in learning to write.
5. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Great Films and How to Teach Them
   Costanzo offers high school and college teachers an updated, expanded edition that contains 80% new material on teaching film, including study guides of 14 new film with relevant ways to engage their students through a medium that students know and love.
6. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 9  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Power of Picture Books, The: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School
   Featuring descriptions and activities for fifty exceptional titles, Mary Jo Fresch and Peggy Harkins offer a wealth of ideas for harnessing the power of picture books to improve reading and writing in the content areas.
7. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
   Dakin explores different methods for getting students engaged--and excited--about Shakespeare's plays as they learn to construct meaning from the texts' sixteenth-century language and connect it to their twenty-first-century lives.
8. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Semiotic Representations: Building Complex Literacy Practices Through the Arts
   Include visual arts, drama, and movement in English language arts instruction to increase students' understanding and motivation.