In the Best Interest of Students: Staying True to What Works in the ELA Classroom
10 best books like In the Best Interest of Students: Staying True to What Works in the ELA Classroom (Kelly Gallagher): What's the Big Idea?: Question-Driven Units to Motivate Reading, Writing, and Thinking, Teaching Argument Writing, Grades 6-12: Supporting Claims with Relevant Evidence and Clear Reasoning, So What Do They Really Know?: Assessment That Informs Teaching and Learning, Making the Match: The Right Book for the Right Reader at the Right Time, Grades 4-12, Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12, 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know, Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement, Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers, What Readers Really Do: Teaching the Process of Meaning Making, Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading
| Author | Jim Burke |
| ISBN | 0325021570 |
Many people have written about how theory (or research) relates to practice; Jim is one of those rare professionals who live the relationship. -Arthur Applebee
NAEP advisor,
Validation committee member for Common Core,
Author of Curriculum as Conversation Why a book about questions?...
| Author | George Hillocks Jr. |
| ISBN | 0325013969 |
"In this book, George Hillocks teaches us not only what an argument is, but how to teach it and why we should. Essential reading for those preparing ALL students to think critically, write well, and succeed academically in both high school and college."
Jim Burke, Author of The English Teacher's...
| Author | Cris Tovani |
| ISBN | 1571107304 |
In So What Do They Really Know? Cris Tovani explores the complex issue of monitoring, assessing, and grading students' thinking and performance with fairness and fidelity. Like all teachers, Cris struggles to balance her student-centered instruction with school system mandates. Her recommendations...
Making the Match: The Right Book for the Right Reader at the Right Time, Grades 4-12
| Author | Teri S. Lesesne |
| ISBN | 1571103813 |
What do adolescents care about? Chatting on-line with friends, movies, their favorite bands . . . but many are also avid readers. What motivates some of these "typical teens" to become lifelong readers and others to slide by with the minimum amount of assigned reading? Teri Lesesne says the key is finding...
| Author | Janet Allen |
| ISBN | 1571100857 |
Do you spend hours creating word lists and weekly vocabulary tests only to find that your students have "forgotten" the words by the following week? Janet Allen and her students were frustrated with the same problem. Words, Words, Words describes the research that changed the way she and many other...
| Author | Jeff Anderson |
| ISBN | 1571108106 |
Whether writing a blog entry or a high-stakes test essay, fiction or nonfiction, short story or argumentation, students need to know certain things in order to write effectively. In 10 Things Every Writer Needs to Know, Jeff Anderson focuses on developing the concepts and application of ten essential...
| Author | Lucy Calkins |
| ISBN | 0325043558 |
"As challenging as it must have been to write and finesse the adoption of the Common Core State Standards, that accomplishment is nothing compared to the work of teaching in ways that bring all students to these ambitious expectations. The goal is clear. The pathway is not."
-Lucy Calkins, Mary...
| Author | Penny Kittle |
| ISBN | 0325042950 |
"I believe each of my students must craft an individual reading life of challenge, whim, curiosity, and hunger, and I've discovered that it is not too late in high school to lead a non-reader to reading. It's never too late."-Penny Kittle
Penny Kittle wants us to face the hard truths every English...
What Readers Really Do: Teaching the Process of Meaning Making
| Author | Dorothy Barnhouse |
| ISBN | 0325030731 |
Drawing on their own lives as readers and writers and years of experience working in classrooms as coaches, staff developers, and consultants, Dorothy Barnhouse and Vicki Vinton offer practical tips for meeting today's rigorous standards while reminding us of the deeper, enduring purposes and...
| Author | Kylene Beers |
| ISBN | 9780325046 |
"Notice and Note" picks up where Keene and Zimmermann left off (or left us hanging) with strategy-based comprehension instruction. Like many teachers in the 1990's, after I read Keene & Zimmermann's "Mosaic of Thought" I attempted to explicitly teach visualizing, connecting, inferencing,...
| Author | Jan Burkins |
| ISBN | 1625310757 |
In their follow-up to Reading Wellness, Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris explore how some traditional scaffolding practices may actually rob students of important learning opportunities and independence. Who’s Doing the Work? suggests ways to make small but powerful adjustments to instruction that...
Veteran teacher and author Linda Rief has inspired thousands of practitioners across the nation to lead adolescent students on a journey to becoming lifelong readers and writers. In ReadWriteTeach, Linda offers the what, how, and why of a year's worth of reading and writing for middle and high school...
| Author | Robert Probst |
| ISBN | 1338132903 |
In their hit books Notice and Note and Reading Nonfiction, Kylene Beers and Bob Probst showed teachers how to help students become close readers. Now, in Disrupting Thinking they take teachers a step further and discuss an on-going problem: lack of engagement with reading. They explain that all too...
| Author | Christopher Lehman |
| ISBN | 0325050848 |
You and your students will fall for close reading. In Falling in Love with Close Reading, Christopher Lehman and Kate Roberts show us that it can be rigorous, meaningful, and joyous. You'll empower students to not only analyze texts but to admire the craft of a beloved book, study favorite songs and videogames,...
| Author | Thomas Newkirk |
| ISBN | 0325046956 |
In this highly readable and provocative book, Thomas Newkirk explodes the long standing habit of opposing abstract argument with telling stories. Newkirk convincingly shows that effective argument is already a kind of narrative and is deeply "entwined with narrative."
--Gerald Graff,...
