Yellow Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading 4-12

6 best books like Yellow Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading 4-12 (Janet Allen): The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, Mindfulness in Plain English, The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, Naked Reading: Uncovering What Tweens Need to Become Lifelong Readers, Reading Ladders: Leading Students from Where They Are to Where We'd Like Them to Be

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

Author	A.J. Jacobs
ISBN	0743250621

Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.

33,000 Pages
44 Million Words
10 Billion Years Of History
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Mindfulness in Plain English

Author	Henepola Gunaratana
ISBN	0861713214

“A masterpiece.”
—Jon Kabat-Zinn

Since Mindfulness in Plain English was first published in 1994, it has become one of the bestselling — and most
influential — books in the field of mindfulness. It’s easy to see why.

Author Bhante Gunaratana, a renowned...

The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence

Author	Josh Waitzkin
ISBN	0743277457

Josh Waitzkin knows what it means to be at the top of his game. A public figure since winning his first National Chess Championship at the age of nine, Waitzkin was catapulted into a media whirlwind as a teenager when his father's book "Searching for Bobby Fischer" was made into a major motion picture....

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Author	David Epstein
ISBN	0735214484

What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think.

Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you...

Naked Reading: Uncovering What Tweens Need to Become Lifelong Readers

Author

Teri S. Lesesne

Naked Reading was inspired by the author's ten-year-old granddaughter, whose frequent practice of spending time after a shower air-drying in the privacy of the bathroom, so she can continue reading an engrossing book, made Teri Lesesne curious about what makes some tweens avid readers while others...

Reading Ladders: Leading Students from Where They Are to Where We'd Like Them to Be

Author	Teri S. Lesesne
ISBN	0325017263

Many of us are searching continually for that just-right book for each and every one of our students. It is my hope to help you find those books. More importantly, I hope to help you guide students to the next great book and the one after that. That is the purpose of Reading Ladders. Because it is not sufficient...