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I have gathered (or created) these reading lists from a range of sources. Most are appropriate for students to use to find books. If you learn of other lists you really like, send me the link so I can add it to my collection here! If you have not read my book I Hear America Reading: Why We Read • What We Read, it also includes some great lists and offers a wonderful collection of letters from nuns, murderers, ranchers, and many others about the role reading has played in their lives.

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Favorite Books About Teaching Reading, Writing, and English

Teaching Reading

  1. Reading Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techniques
  2. Reading for Understanding: The Reading Apprenticeship Guidebook
  3. Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop
  4. I Read It, But I Just Don't Get It Chris Tovani
  5. It's Never Too Late: Leading Adolescents to Lifelong Literacy
  6. The SSR Handbook: How to Organize and Manage a Sustained Silent Reading Program

Teaching Writing

  1. What a Writer Needs, Ralph Fletcher
  2. Writer's Inc.: A Student Handbook
  3. The Everyday Writer
  4. Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know About Writing
  5. Creating Writers: Linking Writing Instruction and Writing
  6. Blending Genre, Altering Style, Tom Romano

Teaching English

  1. The English Teacher's Companion: A Complete Guide to Curriculum, Classroom, and the Profession
  2. With Rigor for All: Teaching the Classics to Contemporary Students
  3. Curriculum as Conversation: Transforming Traditions of Teaching and Learning
  4. A Measure of Success: From Assignment to Assessment in English Language Arts
  5. The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline
  6. Cultural Reflections: Critical Teaching and Learning i the English Classroom