The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists
10 best books like The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists (Edward B. Fry): Beyond the Pawpaw Trees: The Story of Anna Lavinia, A Toad for Tuesday, Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School, Designa: Technical Secrets of the Traditional Visual Arts, The Children's Book of Heroes, How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms, Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8, Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Information Writing K-8, Notebook Know-How: Strategies for the Writer's Notebook, The Art of Teaching Reading
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees is a tour through a land as strange and wonderful as Oz, filled with people as delightfully batty as any in Alice’s looking glass. It is a place to which you will want to return again and again, to read of Anna Lavinia’s adventures and to marvel over author and illustrator Palmer...
| Author | Russell E. Erickson |
| ISBN | 0688163254 |
A Toad for Tuesday is one of four books we picked up on our trip to Oregon back in February. As Sean is enamored with owls we both agreed this looked like a good book for him. I was immediately drawn to it for Lawrence di Fiori's illustrations. They are reminisicent of Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad series and...
Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School
Fans of the best-selling For the Good of the Earth and Sun will applaud this sequel by beloved author Georgia Heard - an inspiring and practical handbook that celebrates the natural power of poetry to teach the essential tools of all writing.
Awakening the Heart explores how to cultivate the...
| Author | Adam Tetlow |
| ISBN | 1620406594 |
I love this book. It's great on several levels. For the lover of art and design, this is a great read that explains the art and science behind what we view as appealing. As a designer I also appreciate the step by step instructions in creating some seemingly complex designs. In my opinion if one is using it...
| Author | William J. Bennett |
| ISBN | 0590273299 |
William Bennett and Michael Hague, the team that brought us the national bestseller The Children's Book of Virtues, have once again collaborated to create The Children's Book of Heroes, a beautifully illustrated celebration of heroic deeds, both real and fictional, that will delight and inspire...
How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms
| Author | Carol Ann Tomlinson |
| ISBN | 0871205122 |
In this 2nd edition of a book that has provided inspiration to countless teachers, Carol Ann Tomlinson offers three new chapters, extended examples and information in every chapter, and field-tested strategies that teachers can use in today's increasingly diverse classrooms. Tomlinson shows...
Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8
| Author | Stephanie Harvey |
| ISBN | 1571100725 |
When we open the gates to nonfiction inquiry, we open our thinking and expect the unexpected, making reading discoveries, research discoveries, and writing discoveries on our way. Nonfiction Matters offers teachers the tools to help students explore nonfiction and dig deep to reach more complete...
Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Information Writing K-8
| Author | Joann Portalupi |
| ISBN | 1571103295 |
Writing nonfiction represents a big step for most students. Most young writers are not intimidated by personal narrative, fiction, or even poetry, but when they try to put together a "teaching book," report, or persuasive essay, they often feel anxious and frustrated.
JoAnn Portalupi and...
| Author | Aimee Buckner |
| ISBN | 1571104135 |
A writer's notebook is an essential springboard for the pieces that will later be crafted in writers' workshop. It is here that students brainstorm topics, play with leads and endings, tweak a new revision strategy, or test out a genre for the first time.
In Notebook Know-How, Aimee Buckner...
| Author | Lucy Calkins |
| ISBN | 0321080599 |
Written in Calkins' graceful and passionate style, The Art of Teaching Reading serves as an eloquent and desperately needed reminder of what matters most in teaching.
Incredibly valuable resource for current and future teachers and educators.
Offers a wealth of practical classroom examples...
| Author | Irene C. Fountas |
| ISBN | 0435088637 |
Among the many changes to sweep American literacy education has been a move toward whole class instruction. Nonetheless, children still bring to literacy a wide range of experiences and competencies. How, then, might teachers best support a literate community yet still meet the needs of individual...
Spaces Places: Designing Classrooms for Literacy
| Author | Debbie Diller |
| ISBN | 1571107223 |
From Debbie Diller, author of numerous best-selling books and videos on literacy work stations and small group reading instruction, comes another practical resource filled with ideas you can use immediately to better manage your classroom and support student learning and independence.
In...
| Author | Esmé Raji Codell |
| ISBN | 1565123085 |
Are children reading enough? Not according to most parents and teachers, who know that reading aloud with children fosters a lifelong love of books, ensures better standardized test scores, promotes greater success in school, and helps instill the values we most want to pass on.
Esmé Raji...
| 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...
National Geographic Atlas of the World
| Author | National Geographic Society |
| ISBN | 0792275438 |
Combining state-of-the-art cartographic technology and information with dynamic and diverse physiographic and cultural content, the Eight Edition is National Geographic's most accurate and interesting record of the world yet. The opening section, Ninety Years of Mapping at National Geographic,...
| Author | Ralph Fletcher |
| ISBN | 1571100733 |
Craft is the cauldron in which the writing gets forged.
Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi argue that too often we concentrate on the beginning and ending of the writing process - conceiving and correcting - while leaving students on their own to make a thousand critical decisions...
Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6
How do children's book authors create the wonder that we feel when reading our favorite books? What can students and teachers learn from these authors and books if we let them serve as writing mentors? In Mentor Texts, Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli show teachers how to help students become confident,...
The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research
| Author | Stephen D. Krashen |
| ISBN | 1591581699 |
Continuing the case for free voluntary reading set out in the book's 1993 first edition, this new, updated, and much-looked-for second edition explores new research done on the topic in the last ten years as well as looking anew at some of the original research reviewed. Krashen also explores research...
Unjournaling: Daily Writing Exercises That Are Not Personal, Not Introspective, Not Boring!
| Author | Dawn DiPrince |
| ISBN | 1877673706 |
While there were some worthwhile writing prompts in this book, I found many of them to be incredibly arbitrary and counterproductive. The point of journaling is to create a flow of language and get out all your thoughts about a particular topic. Instead, I found many of the journal topics in this book...
6 + 1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide: Grades 3 Up: Everything You Need to Teach and Assess Student Writing With This Powerful Model
| Author | Ruth Culham |
| ISBN | 0439280389 |
Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions, and Presentation. Look at good writing in any genre, and you'll find these traits. Think of them as the fuel that stokes the engine of writing. With this book, teachers will learn how to assess student work for these traits and...
Positive Discipline in the Classroom: Developing Mutual Respect, Cooperation, and Responsibility in Your Classroom
| Author | Jane Nelsen |
| ISBN | 0761524215 |
The Acclaimed Bestseller That Can Improve Your Classroom Experience Forever!
Over the years, millions of parents have come to trust the classic Positive Discipline series for its consistent, commmonsense approach to child rearing. Hundreds of schools also use these amazingly effective strategies...
Understanding by Design Professional Development Workbook
| Author | Jay McTighe |
| ISBN | 0871208555 |
Implementing the popular Understanding by Design(R) (UbD(TM)) framework is much easier when you use this in-depth resource for workshops, curriculum teams, and teacher training. This collection of templates, design tools, examples, and exercises helps you give all staff members a firm grasp...
The Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science
| Author | Michael S. Schneider |
| ISBN | 0060926716 |
The Universe May Be a Mystery,But It's No Secret Michael Schneider leads us on a spectacular, lavishly illustrated journey along the numbers one through ten to explore the mathematical principles made visible in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, and the human body, expressed in the symbolic language...
