Naked Reading: Uncovering What Tweens Need to Become Lifelong Readers
10 best books like Naked Reading: Uncovering What Tweens Need to Become Lifelong Readers (Teri S. Lesesne): Book Crush: For Kids and Teens--Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Interest, Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise Into Practice, Real Revision: Authors' Strategies to Share with Student Writers, What's the Big Idea?: Question-Driven Units to Motivate Reading, Writing, and Thinking, Holding on to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones: Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting for, Everyday Editing: Inviting Students to Develop Skill and Craft in Writer's Workshop, Conferring: The Keystone of Reader's Workshop, Notebook Connections: Strategies for the Reader's Notebook, Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices, Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12
| Author | Nancy Pearl |
| ISBN | 1570615004 |
From picture books to chapter books, YA fiction and nonfiction, Nancy Pearl has developed more thematic lists of books to enjoy. The Book Lust audience is committed to reading, and here is a smart and entertaining tool for picking the best books for kids. Divided into three sections--Easy Books, Middle-Grade...
| Author | Kylene Beers |
| ISBN | 0325011281 |
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This is the time to think boldly about adolescent literacy. So much of what we know about adolescents and their learning has changed in the last decade, and since then both the world of education and the world at large...
Real Revision: Authors' Strategies to Share with Student Writers
| Author | Kate Messner |
| ISBN | 1571108564 |
How do you show students that revision is more than a classroom exercise to please the teacher? Take them into the real world of writing for publication. In Real Revision, award-winning author and teacher Kate Messner demystifies the revision process for teachers and students alike and provides tried-and-true...
| 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 | Thomas Newkirk |
| ISBN | 0325021236 |
Tom's new chapter, Speaking Back to the Common Core, is NOW AVAILABLE!
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"Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones is my new favorite book about how to live as a teacher. Finishing it, I experienced what I can only describe as a state of grace-moved, renewed, and grateful...
| Author | Jeff Anderson |
| ISBN | 1571107096 |
Editing is often seen as one item on a list of steps in the writing process—usually put somewhere near the end, and often completely crowded out of writer's workshop. Too many times daily editing lessons happen in a vacuum, with no relationship to what students are writing.
In Everyday Editing,...
Conferring: The Keystone of Reader's Workshop
| Author | Patrick A. Allen |
| ISBN | 1571107681 |
In his workshops with teachers over the years, Patrick Allen has encountered a long list of “counterfeit beliefs” about the process of conferring with students, including such comments as: “I don’t have time. I don’t know what questions to ask, It’s too hard, I don’t know what to write...
| Author | Aimee Buckner |
| ISBN | 1571107827 |
The question I grappled with was how to move students from “couch-potato” readers who can answer basic questions with one word–to readers who think while reading–to readers who think beyond their reading.
–Aimee Buckner
In Notebook Know-How, Aimee Buckner demonstrated...
Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices
| Author | Ralph Fletcher |
| ISBN | 1571104259 |
Writing test scores indicate that boys have fallen far behind girls across the grades. In general, boys don't enjoy writing as much as girls. What's wrong? How can we do a better of job of creating “boy-friendly” classrooms so their voices can be heard?
In Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their...
| Author | Cris Tovani |
| ISBN | 1571103767 |
“Do I really have to teach reading?” This is the question many teachers of adolescents are asking, wondering how they can possibly add a new element to an already overloaded curriculum. And most are finding that the answer is “yes.” If they want their students to learn complex new concepts in...
| 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...
Reading Don't Fix No Chevys: Literacy in the Lives of Young Men
| Author | Michael W. Smith |
| ISBN | 0867095091 |
The problems of boys in schools, especially in reading and writing, have been the focus of statistical data, but rarely does research point out how literacy educators can combat those problems. That situation has changed. Michael Smith and Jeff Wilhelm, two of the most respected names in English education...
| 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...
| Author | Steven L. Layne |
| ISBN | 1571103856 |
When teaching reading, American classrooms often focus exclusively on skills instruction. But how can you teach the "how" without the "why?" In his new book, Igniting a Passion for Reading, Steve Layne shows teachers how to develop readers who are not only motivated to read great books, but also love...
| Author | Richard L. Allington |
| ISBN | 0205443249 |
Have you noticed that every new educational method, material and program is "research based" or "scientific"? Everything these days is the new miracle that will transform your classroom into the model learning environment. Thank God for Richard Allington! He sorts through years and years of research...
Reading Reasons: Motivational Mini-Lessons for Middle and High School
| Author | Kelly Gallagher |
| ISBN | 1571103562 |
"Why should I read?" Can your students answer that question? Do they have trouble seeing the importance that reading may have in their lives? Are they lacking motivation, both in academic and recreational reading? Do you think you can effectively teach reading strategies if students don't understand...
The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers
| Author | Nancie Atwell |
| ISBN | 0439926440 |
Long an advocate of frequent, voluminous reading in schools, the author draws on evidence gathered in twenty years of classroom teaching to make the case for reading workshop more powerful than ever. The book establishes the top ten conditions for making engaged classroom reading possible for students...
