Books on Student Engagement/Movement
Total Participation Techniques by Persida and William Himmele
If you are looking for simple and effective ways to make every student in your classroom an active participant in the learning process, this book is a great resource.
Highly Engaged Classroom by Robert Marzano and Debra J.
Pickering
The purpose of this series is to provide teachers was well as building and district
administrators with an in-depth treatment of research-based instructional strategies that can
be used in the classroom to enhance student achievement.
Pickering
The purpose of this series is to provide teachers was well as building and district
administrators with an in-depth treatment of research-based instructional strategies that can
be used in the classroom to enhance student achievement.
Books on Literacy
Total Literacy Techniques by Persida Himmele, William Himmele, and Keely Potter
*by the same authors as Total Pariticipation Techniques This book provides 3rd through 12th grade teachers with more than 50 teacher-tested tools and techniques for helping their students read independently and critically. |
Guided Reading, Second Edition: Responsive Teaching Across The Grades by Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell
Everything you need to know about guided reading and how to be responsive to your students literacy needs. One of the most comprehensive books on the topic on how to provide responsive teaching to students at all reading levels.
Everything you need to know about guided reading and how to be responsive to your students literacy needs. One of the most comprehensive books on the topic on how to provide responsive teaching to students at all reading levels.
Reading in the Wild by Donalynn Miller Reading in the Wild offers solid advice and strategies on how to develop, encourage, and assess five key reading habits that cultivate a lifelong love of reading. Also included are strategies, lesson plans, management tools, and comprehensive lists of recommended books. |
The Next Step In Guided Reading by Jan Richardson
This book provides detailed lessons for readers at all grade levels and at all reading stages from emergent through proficient to use for guided reading For use with
Grades K-8.
This book provides detailed lessons for readers at all grade levels and at all reading stages from emergent through proficient to use for guided reading For use with
Grades K-8.
Literacy Continuum by Irene Fountas and
Gay Su Pinnell This newest edition provides specific behaviors and understandings that are required at each level for students to demonstrate thinking within, beyond, and about the text. These behaviors and understandings describe what students will be expected to do in order to effectively read and understand the text. |
Fall In Love With Close Reading by Christopher Lehman and Kate Roberts
In this book , the authors provide a three-step close-reading process that students can apply to any text. Lessons in this book include strategies for close reading narratives, informational texts, and arguments, suggestions for differentiation, sample charts and student work from actual classrooms. I was able to see the authors present on this book and they used not only texts but other media for close reading. |
What Really Matter for Struggling Readers by Richard Allington
This book shows teachers how to use a variety of best practices with children who are struggling readers. This edition includes updated findings on reading achievement and instruction, reading volume as it relates to reading proficiency, reader-text match, fluency development, comprehension strategies and instruction for struggling readers. |
Running Records by Marie M. Clay
This book provides you with what you need to know to take, score, and interpret running records on your students. Marie Clay was a distinguished researcher from New Zealand known for her work in global educational literacy. She was committed to the idea that children who struggle to learn to read and write can be helped with early intervention. Marie was a clinical psychologist who developed the Reading Recovery intervention program in New Zealand and expanded it worldwide. |
Reading Strategies Book - Your Guide to Developing Skilled Readers by Jennifer Serravallo In this book there are 300 strategies to share with readers. Each strategy is cross-linked to skills, genres, and Fountas & Pinnell reading levels. In this book you will learn to develop goals for every reader, give students step-by-step strategies for skilled reading, guide readers with prompts aligned to the strategies, adjust instruction to meet individual needs, craft demonstrations and explanations with the author's Lesson Language, etc... Whether you use readers workshop, Daily 5/CAFE, guided reading, balanced reading, a core reading program, whole-class novels, or any other approach, The Reading Strategies Book will complement and extend your teaching. You can use it to plan and implement goal-directed, differentiated instruction for individuals, small groups, and whole classes.
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Comprehension Connections by Tanny McGregor
Tanny McGregor has developed visual, tangible, everyday lessons that make abstract thinking concrete and that can help every child in your classroom make more effective use of reading comprehension strategies. I have used her lessons with many students and they are not only engaging, but fun for the students as well. I have all the anchor charts made if you would like to see them and copy them. |
Anchor Charts