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        <title><![CDATA[Teaching Reading with YA Literature: Complex Texts, Complex Lives]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This book is designed to help teachers develop their own version of YA pedagogy and a vision for teaching YA lit in the middle and secondary classroom.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Jennifer Buehler, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[With full recognition that writing is an increasingly multifaceted activity, we offer several principles that should guide effective teaching practice.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Alice Walker in the Classroom: "Living by the Word"]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Carol Jago offers readers a handy guide for bringing this celebrated author's work into the classroom, including biographical information, ideas for literature circles using Walker's short stories, sample writing lessons using Walker's poems, suggestions for teaching The Color Purple, and a wealth of resources for further investigation of Alice Walker and her work.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Carol Jago</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Amy Tan in the Classroom: "The art of invisible strength"]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Offers high school teachers an activity-based approach to teaching the works of Amy Tan, especially The Joy Luck Club and The Opposite of Fate.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Renee H. Shea, Deborah Wilchek</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Judith Ortiz Cofer in the Classroom: A Woman in Front of the Sun]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Carol Jago offers ways to teach the works of Judith Ortiz Cofer in the high school English classroom.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Carol Jago</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Langston Hughes in the Classroom: "Do Nothin' till You Hear from Me"]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Carmaletta M. Williams provides high school teachers with background on Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance as well as help in teaching Hughes's poetry, short stories, novels, and autobiography.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Carmaletta Williams</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sandra Cisneros in the Classroom: "Do not forget to reach"]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The third volume in the NCTE High School Literature Series explores the joys of reading and teaching the stories and poems of noted Mexican American author Sandra Cisneros.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sherman Alexie in the Classroom: "This is not a silent movie. Our voices will save our lives."]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Provides high school teachers with teaching strategies, classroom activities, and student samples for teaching the works of Sherman Alexie.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Christa Umphrey, Anna Baldwin, Heather Bruce</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Zora Neale Hurston in the Classroom: "With a Harp and a Sword in My Hands"]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The book offers a practical approach to Hurston using a range of student-centered activities for teaching Hurston's nonfiction, short stories, and the print and film versions of Their Eyes Were Watching God.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Renee H. Shea, Deborah Wilchek</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Be Fabulous: The Reading Teacher's Guide to Reclaiming Your Happiness in the Classroom]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Scoggin merges her straight-talking blogger persona, Mrs. Mimi, with her years of research to help you rediscover who you are and redefine the type of literacy teacher you want to become. At the heart of this book is teacher happiness and empowerment—reconnect with your inner fabulous to give the best possible literacy instruction to your students.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Jennifer Scoggin</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Write Now! Empowering Writers in Today's K–6 Classroom]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Writing instruction is front and center in today's classrooms. Gain insights from field leaders who provide ideas for using mentor texts, digital tools, vision and choice in writing workshop, multi-genre projects, and more to engage and grow today's diverse learners.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Kathy Ganske</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[It's been said that mediocre writers borrow while great writers steal. Teach your students to be great writers with over 90 practical ideas for using mentor texts and the traits to teach informational, narrative and persuasive writing to elementary students.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Ruth Culham</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Power of Picture Books, The: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Mary Jo Fresch, Margaret Harkins</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Powerful Content Connections]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The implementation of Common Core Standards means we have to rethink what we are teaching and how we teach it. Children are expected to dive deeper into more challenging texts, especially informational texts, right from the start of their school years. This book shows you how to create powerful connections that can strengthen primary-grade students' literacy skills while deepening their content knowledge.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Jennifer Altieri</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning, 4th edition]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[This popular collection provides literacy skill-building strategies for helping students learn in all curricular areas.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Doug Buehl</dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Text Complexity: Raising Rigor in Reading]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Selecting appropriate reading material for students is hard. For decades, teachers have known that quality instruction requires a careful matching of materials to students. The goal is to select materials that are neither too difficult nor too easy for students--a phenomenon sometimes called the Goldilocks Rule.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Diane Lapp</dc:creator>
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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 +0000</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[Beyond Standardized Truth: Improving Teaching and Learning through Inquiry-Based Reading Assessment]]></title>

        <link>http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/professional-library/beyond-standardized-truth-improving-30931.html</link>
        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000</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>
        <dc:creator>Scott Filkins</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 +0000</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 +0000</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 +0000</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[Building a Foundation for Preschool Literacy: Effective Instruction for Children's Reading and Writing Development (Second Edition)]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000</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>

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        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000</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[Authentic Assessments for the English Classroom]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000</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 +0000</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 +0000</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>

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        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000</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 +0000</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[Reading & Writing & Teens: A Parent's Guide to Adolescent Literacy]]></title>

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        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000</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 +0000</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The popular Guided Comprehension instructional framework is tailored to the primary-grade classroom and updated in this second edition printing.]]></description>
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