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All teachers are looking for new publications that offer instructional ideas, lessons, activities and research on how we can become better teachers.  This site provides some of the books I come across that may be of interest to those teaching Language Arts and/or Reading.

Literacy in the Cyberage: Composing Ourselves Online, by R.W. Burniske

http://newbookstore.reading.org/cgi-bin/OnlineBookstore.storefront/1936324246/Product/View/9153-553
These days, literacy encompasses so much: Students need to learn not only how to read and write, but also how to interpret and process the abundance of information that is available to them via e-mail, Web sites, and other electronic media, in order for them to become critical and reflective language users. Literacy in the Cyberage explains how you can expand instruction so that electronic literacy becomes an essential component of your classroom. Author R.W. Burniske has written this volume from a philosophical and communications perspective, challenging readers to expand their concept of "literacy," while examining both the potential and the problems of cyberage technologies for literacy educators.

Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning, Second Edition, by
Doug Buehl

http://newbookstore.reading.org/cgi-bin/OnlineBookstore.storefront/1936324246/Product/View/284&2D553

This book features 45 literacy skill-building strategies for middle school through high school educators that emphasize effective learning in content contexts. The activities in this book will help teachers to instill in students the skills and desire to read increasingly complex material, and to provide explicit instruction in reading comprehension, which will develop students who are active, purposeful, and independent learners. The Appendix contains blank strategy forms suitable for use with an overhead projector or for student worksheets.