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21. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Designing Writing Assignments
    Traci Gardner offers practical tips, starting points, and a companion website to help secondary and college teachers design effective writing assignments.
22. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Developing Academic Thinking Skills in Grades 6-12: A Handbook of Multiple Intelligence Activities
    These skill-based activities will help students develop the academic thinking skills and language to understand challenging content concepts.
23. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines
    Written with the Common Core State Standards firmly in mind, this book presents a much-needed instructional model for disciplinary literacy.
24. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms
    Amy Benjamin challenges the idea of "skill and drill" grammar instruction, and Tom Oliva provides a teacher's journal chronicling how the concepts in this book can work in a real classroom.
25. Professional Development | Grades   9 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Ethics as a Form of Critical and Rhetorical Inquiry in the Writing Classroom
    What can improve students' engagement in persuasive writing? A strong ethical dilemma and strategies for developing intelligent responses.
26. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Expanding Vision: Teaching Haiku
    Despite common misconceptions about haiku, there is a lively and vibrant haiku community throughout the United States and many other countries. Read this article for further discussion on the use of haiku in your own classroom.
27. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report
    Offers 50 diverse suggestions intended to offer students new ways to think about a piece of literature, new directions to explore, and ways to respond with greater depth to the books they read.
28. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Finding the Artist Within: Creating and Reading Visual Texts in the English Language Arts Classroom
    Discover ways to integrate visual arts and technology in your English language arts classroom.
29. 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.
30. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 9  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    "Framing Texts: New Strategies for Student Writers"
    Using children's picture books, Deborah Dean provided frameworks for student research papers that avoided the pitfalls leading to voiceless and encyclopedic writing. Research guide sheets; class analysis of text organization, sentence variety, stylistic choices; and peer review all contribute to interesting final papers.

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