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April 25, 2006


C O N T E N T S


1) Engaging reluctant readers visually
2) Get your free booklet for literacy leaders at IRA in Chicago
3) PD that drives student learning
4) PD Corner: Preparing teachers for the ELL challenge
5) "The Sisters" are now online


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1) Engaging reluctant readers visually
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The reading valued in school is becoming further and further 
distanced from the literacy students experience in their outside 
lives. Inside the classroom, students are asked to immerse 
themselves in print texts and write purposefully. Once out the 
door, they are text-messaging, blogging, engaging in online multi-
player games, and expertly integrating words, images, and music to 
create original texts. How can teachers import these textual 
spaces and literacies into their English classrooms to help re-
connect students who don't see themselves as readers and writers?


In her new book, Bringing the Outside In, Sara Kajder explores 
these newer literacies and their possibilities for engaging 
reluctant readers. This book will challenge teachers to sample new 
strategies and ways of thinking, and take the technology available 
in most classrooms--a computer, a digital camera, and authoring 
and editing tools--and "think with them like a reading teacher."


Bringing the Outside In will be available in print next week. You 
can browse the entire text online now:


http://www.stenhouse.com/0401.asp?r=n88


* Special for Newslinks subscribers *
Pre-order Bringing the Outside In on our Web site by May 5 and 
we'll waive the shipping charge (a $5 value!). Just enter the 
discount code NL88 at the bottom of the "Summary" checkout screen.


Bringing the Outside In: Visual Ways to Engage Reluctant Readers
Sara Kajder * Foreword by Linda Rief * 150 pp/paper * $18.50
http://www.stenhouse.com/0401.asp?r=n88


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2) Get your free booklet for literacy leaders at IRA in Chicago
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If you or a colleague will be attending the IRA Annual Convention 
in Chicago next week, be sure to visit the Stenhouse booth, #1919, 
and pick up your free copy of "Essential Reading for Literacy 
Leaders," a 40-page booklet excerpted from Diane Sweeney's 
Learning Along the Way and Jennifer Allen's Becoming a Literacy 
Leader. Available while supplies last; just bring this coupon:


http://www.stenhouse.com/pdfs/coupon.pdf


Some of your favorite authors will be signing their books at the 
Stenhouse booth. Follow this link for a schedule:


http://www.stenhouse.com/irasign.asp


And here's a list of Stenhouse author sessions, with dates, times, 
and locations:


http://www.stenhouse.com/pdfs/iraschedule.pdf


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3) PD that drives student learning
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"Teachers Who Learn, Kids Who Achieve" (WestEd) profiles eight 
award-winning schools where professional development is at the 
heart of outstanding achievement. This free 76-page report draws 
general conclusions about what makes professional development 
programs successful, and helps leaders apply the principles to 
their own schools:


http://www.wested.org/cs/we/view/rs/179
(Click on the "view online/pdf" link below the image of the 
cover.)


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4) PD Corner: Preparing teachers for the ELL challenge
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"No Train, No Gain" (Edutopia, November 2005) describes the lack 
of professional development for teachers of ELL students, and 
cites a 2005 California survey in which 43% of teachers with a 
majority of ELL students their classrooms received no more than 
one in-service training session on ELL instruction in the past 
five years. It also describes some steps that school districts can 
take to boost their ELL PD:


http://www.stenhouse.com/rdellpd.htm


"Listening to Teachers of English-Language Learners," the 
California study cited in the article above, can be accessed here:


http://www.cftl.org/centerviews/july05.html
(summary)
http://www.cftl.org/documents/2005/listeningforweb.pdf
(full report--1MB download)


Stenhouse offers a number of professional development resources 
that support teachers of ELL students. Follow the links below for 
details and excerpts.


Writing Sense: Integrated Reading and Writing Lessons for English 
Language Learners * Juli Kendall and Outey Khuon
(Full text will be available online by mid-May!)
http://www.stenhouse.com/0442.asp?r=n88


Balancing Reading and Language Learning: A Resource for Teaching 
English Language Learners, K-5 * Mary Cappellini
http://www.stenhouse.com/0367.asp?r=n88


Becoming One Community: Reading and Writing with English Language 
Learners * Kathleen Fay and Suzanne Whaley
http://www.stenhouse.com/0368.asp?r=n88


Making Sense: Small-Group Comprehension Lessons for English 
Language Learners * Juli Kendall and Outey Khuon
http://www.stenhouse.com/0409.asp?r=n88


Reading the World: Content Comprehension with Linguistically 
Diverse Learners (video) * Anne Goudvis and Stephanie Harvey
http://www.stenhouse.com/0426.asp?r=n88


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5) "The Sisters" are now online
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Stenhouse authors Gail Boushey and Joan Moser, a.k.a. "The 
Sisters," have just launched their Web site. Readers of their new 
book, The Daily Five, may want to bookmark this site or join their 
e-mail list to be informed of online study groups and workshops:


http://www.the2sisters.com


You can browse the entire text of The Daily Five here:


http://www.stenhouse.com/0429.asp?r=n88


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