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Laura Adkins
Teaching Middle School Students to Write an Argument
Barry Alcock
Choice at Finland Middle School
Michael Alcock
Providing Choice—A Risk Worth Taking for Teachers and Students
Sandina Alexander
Poetry and the Standards?
Janet Allen
Choosing What Matters for Adolescent Learners
MOTIVATION AND ENGAGEMENT (* in retrospective issue)
Jeff Anderson
Stray from the Conventional Wisdom: Show Writers How to Shape Writing with Grammar and Mechanics
Stray from the Conventional Wisdom: Show Writers How to Shape Writing with Grammar and Mechanics (* in retrospective issue)
Kathie Anderson
Test Prepping Over the Edge: What If?
Janet I. Angelis
Testing: Only the Tip of the Iceberg
Argumentative Writing Project Team
Learning from (and with) Expert Teachers of Argumentative Writing
Gwynne Ellen Ash
Living with Hope, Rather Than Doubt: Classroom Assessment of Adolescent Literacy Learning

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Allison L. Baer
Simple Poems, Powerful Teaching: Experiencing Poetry in Content-Area Classrooms
Ann Ballinger
Using Strategic Thoughts and Questions—A Great Antidote
Scott Barber
Science Literacy: Get Real!
Wendy Begun
Language Arts and Social Studies? It’s the Connections That Matter Most!
June Berkley
Getting Boys to Read: Teachers Whose Classrooms Teach Us How to Do It
LeeAnn K. Binion
Working with Struggling Readers
Karla Hieatt Bisig
Vocabulary and Word Study
Margaret Blevins
Engaging Adolescent Readers
Making Time for All Readers: Strategies to Use
MOTIVATION AND ENGAGEMENT (* in retrospective issue)
David Bloome
"Complex Human Activities Taking Place in Complex Human Relationships"
BEST PRACTICES (* in retrospective issue)
Tara Boyer
A District Perspective: Scaffolding Text Complexity for At-Risk Readers
Amy Bradley
Providing Choice—A Risk Worth Taking for Teachers and Students
Sarah Bretz
Student-Tested Suggestions for Using Textbooks More Effectively
Carol Brown Dodson
Implications for the Common Core: Getting Started with Text Complexity
Teaching to the Test and Beyond
David L. Bruce
Wired Students, Disconnected Learners
Tammy Burt
Creating a Recipe for Reading Success

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Debbie Camp
Choice at Finland Middle School
Sheila Cantlebary
Books by Anderson, Noden, Weaver, and Ehrenworth & Vinton
Books by Atwell, Holbrook, Janeczko, and Somers
Books by Brozo, Pirie, Tatum, and Smith and Wilhelm
Books by Burke, by Gallagher, by Forsten, Grant, & Hollas, and by Irvin, Buehl, & Radcliffe
Books by Cole; Gere, Christenbury, and Sassi; Stiggins; and Walker and Schmidt
Books by Copeland, Gallagher, Glasgow, and McLaughlin & DeVoogd
Books by Gallagher, Bigelow and Voukon, Harvey and Daniels, and Quate and McDermott
Books by Kajder, Morrell, and Richardson
Books by Kajder, Richardson, and Kist
Books by Kist, Boss and Krauss, Rozema and Webb, and Richardson
Books by Lesesne, Reeves, and Marshall
Books by McLaughlin & DeVoogd, Zwiers, Fisher & Frey, and Harmon, Wood, & Hedrick
Books by Raphael, Highfield, and Au, by Koechlin and Zwann, and by Beck and McKeown
Books by Rasinski, Rasinski & Padak, Samuels & Farstrup, Johns & Berglund, and Brand & Brand
Books by Robb, Beers, and Zwiers
Books by Robb, Tovani, Daniels & Zemelman, and Forsten, Grant, & Hollas
Books by Sipe, Phenix, and Wheatley
Books by Wormeli, Bloland, Coehlo, Gregory & Kuzmich, Lenz & Deshler, and Tomlinson
ORC Authors—Looking Back and Looking Ahead (* in retrospective issue)
Karen Carney
A Day in the Life of a School Literacy Consultant: The ABCs of an SLC
Diana Carr
Helping the Kids to "Get It"
Joshua Caton
The Complexities of Teaching New Literacies in Our Classrooms
Sylvia L. Clark
Using the Newspaper to Involve Students in Science Literacy
Debbie Collins
Supporting Middle School Writers
Kevin D. Cordi
My Journey into Digital Storytelling–Teaching Using Digital Means
Bizzie Cors
Unlocking the Mystery of Mathematics: Give Vocabulary Instruction a Chance
Mary Crabtree
Using Computers to Enrich Content
Kriston Crombie
A Teacher Looks at Persuasive Writing: Two Vantage Points

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Carol Damian
Building Vocabulary in the Content Areas
Mark Dewar
Strategies to Teach Vocabulary in the Content Areas
Lori Dhiraprasiddhi
Language Arts and Social Studies? It’s the Connections That Matter Most!
Melissa Dillon
"You Want Me to Do WHAT in Biology Class?!"
Mary Lou DiPillo
Reader's Theater: A Strategy to Make Social Studies Click
Susan Dixon
Almost Painless—A Strategy for Writing Argumentation
Carol Brown Dodson
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT (* in retrospective issue)
Activity for a Community of Teachers: Focus on a Benchmark
Analyzing a Question
Books by Gallagher and by Calkins, Ehrenworth, and Lehman
Books by Hillocks; Smagorinsky, Johannessen, Kahn, and McCann; Gallagher; and Calkins, Ehrenworth, and Lehman
Books by Kajder, Morrell, and Richardson
Books by Kajder, Richardson, and Kist
Books by Kist, Boss and Krauss, Rozema and Webb, and Richardson
Books by Sima and Cordi, by the NWP with DeVoss, Eidman-Aadahl, and Hicks, and by Hicks
Building Reading Stamina
Confronting Informational Text
Considering Theme
Constructing Standards-Based Assessment Questions
Does Spelling Count?
Examining Results
Finding Short Passages to Help Students Practice
Focus on the Question
Getting Them Ready for the Writing Test
Improving Students’ Writing
Informational Text and Author's Purpose
Mechanics, Grammar, and Usage: How Much Is Enough?
Persuasion in Reading and Writing
Professional Learning Through Test Analysis
Reading a Poem
Reading Passages from Diverse Cultures
Understanding the Core: Technology Integration and Assessment
Understanding the Core: Writing Argument
Using Active Reading Strategies During the Test
Using Computers to Improve Writing
Using NAEP Items to Help Students Achieve the Benchmarks
Using Results for Planning Instruction
What to Do When They Can’t Read the Passage
What's New for 2007–2008? (* in retrospective issue)
Brenda Doyle
Summer Book Club
Kasey Dunlap
Both Sides of the Coin: The Challenge of Teaching Argument

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Rachel Eader
Teaching Students About a Diverse World―Past and Present
Stephenie Eriksson
Digital Storytelling in the English Classroom

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Jay Falls
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT (* in retrospective issue)
Ensuring Success: Daily Short-Cycle Assessments
Stephanie Briani Fitz
Working with Struggling Readers
Marge Ford
Reading and Writing in a Technology-Rich World
Nancy Fordham
Strategic Questions: Helping Students Develop the "Noticing" Habit
Theresa M. Fredericka
Preparing Twenty-First-Century Ohio Learners for Success: The Role of Information Literacy and Libraries
Michael P. French
Moving from Books to E-readers—Implications for Secondary Content Instruction
Mary Jo Fresch
Word Study: Ways to Captivate Reluctant Learners
Leah Fullenkamp
Collaborative Digital Writing Made Easy with Google Docs

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Brent Garee
Text Complexity: Accessing Exemplar Texts Across Disciplines
Kim Garee
Text Complexity: Accessing Exemplar Texts Across Disciplines
Gayle Geitgey
Preparing Twenty-First-Century Ohio Learners for Success: The Role of Information Literacy and Libraries
Ken Glassmeyer
A Fistful of Literacy
Jan Goodwin
Share Your Test-Taking Thinking Processes Through Think-Alouds
Linda Gore
Summer Book Club
Cynthia Greenleaf
Fostering Metacognitive Conversation in Professional Learning Communities and Subject-Area Classrooms

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Kara Haubert Haas
Navigating Unfamiliar Territories in Life and Literature
David Hampson
Choice at Finland Middle School
Christina Hank
Understanding the Core: Text Complexity
Janis M. Harmon
Content-Area Vocabulary: A Critical Key to Conceptual Learning
Clare Heidema
Reading and Writing to Learn in Mathematics: Strategies to Improve Problem Solving
Troy Hicks
May the Journey Continue: A Response to Kevin Cordi’s Work on Teaching the Digital Book Trailer
Helen Holdridge
Motivating Students to Read Fiction
Julie Horger
Teaching Argumentative Writing: Argumentative Inquiry as the Basis of Good Literary Analysis

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Julie Ison
Choice at Finland Middle School

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Carol Jago
Closer Reading for Deeper Comprehension: Uncommon Sense About the Common Core

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Diane K. Kahle
Getting to Know Your Middle Grades Mathematics Textbook
Sara Kajder
Listening 2.0: What Adolescents Want Us to Know About New Literacies and Learning
Peggy Kasten
Reading and the Mathematics OGT
Sarah E. Kasten
A Case for Using Reading and Writing in a Mathematics Classroom
BEST PRACTICES (* in retrospective issue)
William Kist
From Web 2.0 to School 2.0: Tales from the Field
Karel Kroos
The Columbus Coaching Project

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Lisa Lenhart
The Story of e-Read Ohio
Teri Lesesne
Making the Match: Engaging Reluctant Readers in YA Literature (* in retrospective issue)
Teri S. Lesesne
Engage, Excite, Enrich: Selecting the Right Book
Making the Match: Engaging Reluctant Readers in YA Literature
Laura R. Lipsett
Roadblocks to Coaching: Getting Past “Why” to Get to “What” and “How”
Who Better Than the "Leading Learner"?
Bev Lucas
New Lexington: A High School That Reads Together
Nicole Luthy
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT (* in retrospective issue)
Books by Kajder, Morrell, and Richardson
INTRODUCTION (* in retrospective issue)
Nonfiction Text and the Math and Science OGT
Nonfiction Text and the Math and Science OGT
Raising the Reading Achievement of Boys
Vocabulary Instruction
Nicole Carter Luthy
Books by Kajder, Richardson, and Kist
Looking Back, Going Forward (* in retrospective issue)
Angela Cartwright Lynskey
We Must Use Texts as a Tool, Not as a Crutch

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Nancy Mack
"What Should I Write?" Helping Students Respond to Prompts
Celeste Garcia Madsen
Grammar, Games, and Good Guys: Unconventional Conventions for ADHD (and Other) Students
Lyndsey Manzo
A Strategy for Integrating Writing Skills and Science Content in a Differentiated Classroom
Dwayne Marshall
The Evolution of a Social Studies Teacher? Integrating Literacy
Susan Massey
Things You Wanted to Know About the OGT Reading Test but Didn’t Have the Chance to Ask
Kerri Matheny
Addressing Literacy in the Science and Mathematics Classrooms
Ruth McClain
A Question Is a Question Is a Question
Brigette McConnell
Reaching Out to Our Struggling Readers
Reaching Out to Our Struggling Readers (* in retrospective issue)
Maureen McLaughlin
An Interview with Maureen McLaughlin About Critical Literacy
Mary McMackin
BEST PRACTICES (* in retrospective issue)
More Than Facts: Effective Researching and Reporting
Julie Meltzer
Designing Effective Content-Literacy Professional Development
Lori Michalec
Decidedly Doable Differentiation
Judy Mikita
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT (* in retrospective issue)
Ensuring Success: Daily Short-Cycle Assessments
Scott Miller
Textploration: Fun with Front Loading
Sue Misiak
An Interview with Bob Howard on Technology and the Classroom
Asma Mobin-Uddin
Educating About the Muslim American Experience: Breaking Stereotypes with Children’s Literature
Petra Moran
Using Podcasting as a Prereading Strategy
Scott Morrison
Our Father-Son Book Club
Beth Munger
Books by Caine, Gallagher, and Lane & Bernabei
Books by Dozier, IRA, McKenna and Walpole, and Toll
Books by Glasgow & Rice, Hadaway & McKenna, Hinton & Dickinson, and Wood
Books by Harmon, Wood, & Hedrick and Allen
Books by Irvin, Meltzer, & Dukes, Taylor & Collins, and Lent
Books by Kajder, Richardson, and Kist
Books by McLaughlin & DeVoogd, Zwiers, Fisher & Frey, and Harmon, Wood, & Hedrick
Books by Rice, Schmidt, and Ogle, Klemp, & McBride

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George E. Newell
Learning from (and with) Expert Teachers of Argumentative Writing
Evangeline Newton
A Little Latin and . . . a Lot of English
A Little Latin and . . . a Lot of English (* in retrospective issue)
Rick M. Newton
A Little Latin and . . . a Lot of English
A Little Latin and . . . a Lot of English (* in retrospective issue)
Teresa Null
Make Science Reading Fun and Meaningful in Middle School!

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Allison Wynhoff Olsen
Learning from (and with) Expert Teachers of Argumentative Writing
Cher Orebaugh
Literature—Before, Behind, and Beyond

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Nancy Padak
Reaching Out to Our Struggling Readers
Reaching Out to Our Struggling Readers (* in retrospective issue)
Judy Ellsesser Painter
Required Summer Reading? Discussion Boards Keep Things Lively
Joe Paris
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT (* in retrospective issue)
Ensuring Success: Daily Short-Cycle Assessments
Donna Parker
"You Want Me to Do WHAT in Biology Class?!"
Lisa Patrick
Teaching Grammar Can Be Fun: An Oxymoron?
Courtnay Paul
Using Podcasting as a Prereading Strategy
Dana Perkins
The Power of Poetry: Three Examples of Using Poetry to Support Expository Writing
Kevin Perks
Crafting Effective Choices to Motivate Students
Melvina Phillips
Designing Effective Content-Literacy Professional Development
Brenda Power
Being the Belle of the Ball: Online Resources for Literacy Coaches
Jennifer Price
"Politics" at Cardington? It’s a Technological Thing!
Marcia W. Punsalan
Fluency in the High School Classroom: One Teacher's Method

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Chad D. Radune
A Walk Through the Writing Process: Scary Steps
Timothy Rasinski
Reading Fluency for Adolescents: Should We Care?
Shaleen Reed
A Wall of Words and Other Ways to Teach Vocabulary
Regina Rees
Reader's Theater: A Strategy to Make Social Studies Click
Jared J. Reitz
Literacy for Active Citizenship
Sarah Ressler
"Et tu, Ms. Ressler?" Radio Show Podcasts and Julius Caesar
Christy Rhoades
The Book of the Month and Mathematics: An Integrative Approach
Linda J. Rice
Active Learning and Historically Based Young Adult Novels: Centerpieces for Integrating Literacy Instruction with Social Studies
Ryan Rish
The Complexities of Teaching New Literacies in Our Classrooms
Laura Robb
Model Reading Strategies to Improve Comprehension for All Students
Lynette Romito
Family Nights at the School Library—It’s Computer Time!
Joyce K. Rowland
Book Hook Day
Dawn Ruehrmund
How to Get Started Integrating Technology
Colleen Ruggieri
"Will This Be on the Test?!" Literacy and Assessment in High School English
BEST PRACTICES (* in retrospective issue)

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Doreen Uhas Sauer
Many Questions, Sometimes Answers--The Secret Confessions of an Urban Reflector
Diane Sayre
Discovering the Power of Reading Through Fiction
Kevin A. Schneider
"Where You From?" Using a Sense of Place to Celebrate Our Students and the Language Arts
MOTIVATION AND ENGAGEMENT (* in retrospective issue)
Tammy A. Schwartz
"Where You From?" Using a Sense of Place to Celebrate Our Students and the Language Arts
MOTIVATION AND ENGAGEMENT (* in retrospective issue)
Where You From?
Brenda Shelton
Supporting Readers in Social Studies: Effective Strategies for Learning
Terry Shiverdecker
Books by Kenney et al., Barton and Heidema, and Barton and Jordan
Considering Science
More Resources on Making Time for All Readers
Reading Through the Lens of Inquiry
Char Shryock
Shifting Gears: Changing the Way We Think About What Students Read in School
Franki Sibberson
Filling the Classroom with Possibilities: Using Writing and Talk to Help Students Read Beyond Plot
Barbara Siegel
BEST PRACTICES (* in retrospective issue)
More Than Facts: Effective Researching and Reporting
Rebecca Bowers Sipe
Strategic Approaches for Challenged Spellers
Paul Smathers
Choice at Finland Middle School
Nancy Smith
Navigating Unfamiliar Territories in Life and Literature
Pamela Adams Smith
Breaking the Code of Academic Reading
Judy Spicer
Books by Kenney et al., Barton and Heidema, and Barton and Jordan
Melanie Stender
Going Beyond Content: Fostering Students’ Exploration of Text Structures and Purpose for Reading
Lynnette Stephens
Choice at Finland Middle School
Heather Stewart
My Role in Professional Development and Coaching as a Regional Literacy Consultant
J. Mark Stewart
The Ohio Graduation Test in Social Studies
Carolyn Suttles
MOTIVATION AND ENGAGEMENT (* in retrospective issue)
Using Email to Engage Students in the Reading Process--It Works!

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Pat Tallman
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT (* in retrospective issue)
Ensuring Success: Daily Short-Cycle Assessments
Alfred W. Tatum
Motivating African American Teenage Boys to Read Text
Motivating African American Teenage Boys to Read Text (* in retrospective issue)
Angela Thomas
Strategies to Probe Deeply into the Text: Learning "More When We Work Together"
Edna Thomas
Touching Everybody with Kind Fingers: Reaching Students with Literature
Joleata Tidwell-Howell
When You Give Me a Choice, You Give Me a Chance
Cris Tovani
BEST PRACTICES (* in retrospective issue)
Show Me the Thinking: Making Comprehension Instruction Visible
Melissa Tucker
A Strategy for Integrating Writing Skills and Science Content in a Differentiated Classroom

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Carol Van Zalingen
A Learner’s Point of View
Jennifer VanDerHeide
Learning from (and with) Expert Teachers of Argumentative Writing

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Darla Wagner
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT (* in retrospective issue)
Ensuring Success: Daily Short-Cycle Assessments
Cathy Brooks Walker
Grammar Gimmicks
Keith Wayne
Our Father-Son Book Club
Erin Weiker
Student-Tested Suggestions for Using Textbooks More Effectively
Karen Whitney
Boys’ Literate Lives: A Nonfiction Collaboration
Lori Wilfong
Multiple Perspectives: Teaching (and Learning!) in Urban and Rural Settings
Lori G. Wilfong
A Fresh Perspective on In Perspective: How a Professional Learning Community Used In Perspective to Drive Change at One Middle School in Northeast Ohio
Jeffery L. Williams
Fostering Comprehension in Content-Area Reading
Dollie Willis
Making Time for Struggling Adolescent Readers
Jennifer Wolf
Motivating Lifelong Reading Through Fiction
Karen D. Wood
Content-Area Vocabulary: A Critical Key to Conceptual Learning
Rick Wormeli
Differentiation at the Secondary Level

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Kathy Young
New Lexington: A High School That Reads Together

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Cheryl Zachry
Some Approaches to Learning Science Vocabulary and Concepts