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1. 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.
   
2. 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.
3. Professional Development | Grades   2 – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Digital Readers: The Next Chapter in E-Book Reading and Response
   This article discusses the use of digital e-book readers in the classroom.
4. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 9  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Finding the Thread: Character, Setting, and Theme
   An annotated bibliography of books that exemplify the plot elements, character, setting, and theme. Includes guidelines on how to do a book talk.
5. Professional Development | Grades   K – 3  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Informational Text in K-3 Classrooms: Helping Children Read and Write
   Learn how to integrate informational text into early reading instruction.
6. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Reading and Writing Nonfiction Genres
   This practical, hands-on text shows how to teach nonfiction to elementary students.
7. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 10  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based Texts to Build Content Knowledge
   Heather Lattimer provides practical, classroom-tested approaches to helping students access and critically respond to content-based texts.
8. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Teaching YA Lit through Differentiated Instruction
   Authors Susan L. Groenke and Lisa Scherff offer suggestions for incorporating YA lit into the high school curriculum.
9. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Technology That Powers Up Learning
   By designing lessons to activate prior knowledge and linking these activities to reading and writing, teachers found that students were more engaged, that they learned more material more quickly, and that they more willingly incorporated reading into their lives.
10. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Tim O'Brien in the Classroom: "This too is true: Stories can save us"
    As part of the NCTE High School Literature Series, Tim O’Brien in the Classroom focuses on opportunities for classroom discussion and writing assignments, including lessons, open-ended prompts, and student writing samples.