READING

 

RDG1.

The Keeping Quilt

by Patricia Polacco

© 1988

 

The only tangible remnants of Young Anna's ethnic heritage were her dress and babushka made from the garments Great-Gramma Anna had worn when she came to America. Outgrown, they become the border of a quilt that neighborhood women sew together from scraps of other old family clothing to help them always remember back-home Russia. Used as the Sabbath tablecloth, the huppa (marriage canopy), and as a blanket to wrap the newborns in and to warm the sick and dying, the quilt gets passed down from mother to daughter for four generations.

RDG2.

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge

by Mem Fox

© 1984

About a little boy who lives next to a retirement home and his friendship with the people who live there. We get to see these elderly people in a little boy’s eyes. It’s a great story to share with children about memories and Alzheimer’s disease. The world seems a much friendlier place through a child’s eyes.

RDG3.

Building a Strong Vocabulary

A 12 Week Plan for Students

by Carl B. Smith

© 1997

Learn twelve powerful strategies to increase your vocabulary and boost your communication skills!  These vocabulary-bulding tactica will keep working for you over the years.

RDG4a.-i.

Help Your Child Read and Succeed (11)

A Parent’s Guide

by Carl B. Smith

© 1991

This book will give you the confidence and information you need to play that essential role for your child’s reading and sccess in school.

RDG5

Make a Difference Talk About Books

Video and Discussion Guide

by Carl B. Smith

© 1996

This program helps parents to strengthen their relationships with their children, promote their children’s intellectual and emotional growth, and much more.

RDG6a.-k.

101 Ways to Help Your Child Learn to Read & Write (11)

by Mary & Richard Behm

© 1995

These one hundred and one ideas make learning easy and fun for the whole family.  You’ll find you can encourage natural learning at home, in the car, at the grocery store-just about everywhere you go.

RDG7.

Reading Engagement

Motivating Readers Through Integrated Instruction

© 1997

This book provides an interpretation of the available research on motivation and describes instructional approaches in classroom contexts.  This volume will help teacher educators, researchers and graduate students understand the research literature on motivation and use it in their efforts too enhance children’s literacy development.

 

RDG8.

When Writers Read

by Jane Hansen

© 1987

This book brings readein and writing instruction together. It demonstrates how recent approaches in the teaching of writing can be used in the teaching of reading.

 

RDG9.

Standards in Practice Grades K-12

by Linda K. Crafton

© 1996

This book presents a number of ways to increase student ownership of learning. 

RDG10.

Teaching Reading:  Strategies from Successful Classrooms

Video Set-6 Videos, Viewer’s Guide & Instructor’s Guide

#1 Emergent Literacy

#2 The Reading/Writing Connection

#3 Teaching Reading Comprehension: Experience and Text

#4 Teaching Word Identification

#5 Literacy in Content Area Instruction

#6 Fostering A Literate Culture

© 1991

 

Literacy in Content Area Instruction.  A six set video series produced by the Center for the Study of Reading.

RDG11.

The Administration and Supervision of Reading Programs (Second Ed.)

© 1995

Part II presents guidelines fr developing reading programs at the pre-elementary, elementary, middle school, junior high, and high-school levels.  This book will be of invaluable assistance to preservice and inservice reading specialists, supervisors, and administrators in identifying the needs and means necessary for the organization and supervision of pre-K through 12 reading programs.

 

RDG12.

Guided Reading

A video set from The Primary Literacy Video Collection

By Irene C. Fountas & Gay Su Pinnell

Video 1: Essential Elements

Video 2: The Skillful Teacher

©2001

You can see for yourself how to create organize, and manage a classroom environment that encourages and supports independent literacy learning. Managing the Day, the first video, demonstrates how one first-grade teacher has successfully set up her classroom. The second video, Planning for Effective Teaching, reveals how to organize materials and manage your time. You'll discover how to set up literacy centers using work-board icons; art, poetry, listening, writing, and word-study centers.

 

RDG13.

Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6)

By Irene C. Fountas & Gay Su Pinnell

© 2001

Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6) contains a wealth of ideas that will inspire students to become more literate.

RDG14.

Leveled Books for Readers (Grades 3-6)

By Gay Su Pinnell & Irene C. Fountas

©

 

RDG15

Supporting Struggling Readers and Writers: Strategies for Classroom Intervention

By Dorthy S. Strickland & Kathy Ganske & Joanne K. Monroe

© 2002

Provides teachers, administrators, and staff developers with the best research-based practice on the literacy learning and teaching of low-achieving intermediate students.

RDG16

Literature Discussion Groups in the Intermediate Grades: Dilemmas and possibilities

By Karen S. Evans

© 2001

In this book Karen S. Evans describes how her strong belief in the value of literature discussions helped her to deal with the dilemmas in introducing a new way of “doing Reading” to students in several different classrooms.

RDG17

Getting Beyond “I Like the Book”:  Creating Space for Critical Literacy in K-6 Classrooms

By Vivian Vasquez

© 2003

Provides classroom strategies and annorared lists of childen’s literature that can be used t encourage and support childrens critical conversations.   

RDG18

Comprehension Strategies for Middle Grade Learners:  A Handbook for Content Area Teachers

By Charlotte Rose Sadler

© 2001

In this book the author arms teachers in all curricular areas with practical tools to help students understand their assigned readings.  It offers 56 basic strategies, each with a description and easy-to-follow procedures content area examples, and suggestions for assessment.

 

RDG19

To Be A Boy, To Be A Reader:  Engaging Teen and Preteen Boys in Active Literacy

By William G. Brozo

© 2002

This book addresses the growing concern among middle school and high school teachers of boys’ lack of literacy growth and independent reading.

RDG20

Supporting Struggling Writers in the Elementary Classroom

By Teresa A. Christenson

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RDG21

Tiger Lilies, Toadstools, and Thunderbolts:  Engaging K-8 Students with Poetry

By Iris McClellan Tiedt

© 2002

A comprehensive resource that combines background information about teaching poetry and a variety of learning activities to help create a classroom that invites positive experiences with poetry and encourages students not only to learn more about poetry, but also to appreciate it.

 

RDG22

Guided Comprehension in the Primary Grades

By Maureen McLaughlin

© 2003

A teaching framework that develops reading comprehension by providing direct and guided strategy instruction; numerous opportunities for engagement, including comprehension centers and routines;  and a variety of leveled texts and instructional settings.

 

RDG23

Teaching With Picture Books in the Middle School

By McClellan Tiedt

©

 

RDG24

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

By Janet Allen

© 2000

Offers a research-based methods this book provides research, practical methods, detaied strategies, and resources for read-aloud, shared, guided, and independent reading.

RDG25

Teaching Reading in Social Studies, Science, and Math:  Practical Ways to Weave Comprehension Strategies Into Your Content Area Teaching

By Laura Robb

© 2003

Shows you how to help students read and engage with textbooks and navigate the special demands of any nonfiction text structure.  This book shares dozens of strategy lessons to use before, during, and after reading content area selections. 

RDG26

Improving Comprehension With Think-Aloud Strategies: Modeling What Good Readers Do

By Jeffrey D. Wilhelm

© 2001

"With this book, Jeff Wilhelm gets to the heart of what it means to be a passionate teacher and reader, one who not only conveys to his students an enthusiasm for reading, but also shows them ways that they can comprehend, appreciate, and converse with texts of all kinds. Jeff's energy for teaching is palpable and infectious, yet the beauty of this book emanates from Jeff's ability to reveal the raw mechanics of the reading process both to his students and to us."

RDG27

10 Writing Lessons for the Overhead: Transparencies That Show Models of Strong Writing with Companion Mini-Lessons

By Lola M. Schaefer

©

 

RDG28

50 Reproducible Strategy Sheets That Build Comprehension During Independent Reading

By Anina Robb

©

 

RDG29

Graphic Organizers and Activities For Differentiated Instruction in Reading

By Nancy L. Witherell and Mary C. McMackin

©

 

RDG30

40 Graphic Organizers That Build Comprehension During Independent Reading

By Anina Robb

© 2003

Full of worksheets to help you incorporate independent reading in your classroom.

RDG31

Easy Writing Lessons for the Overhead

By Lisa Blau

© 2002

Contains a collection of transparencies and activities.  it also includes the sequencing organizer, semantic analysis chart, self-editing grid, persuasive writing map and more

RDG32

Taking Running Records: A Teacher Shares Her Experience On How to Take Running Records and Use What They Tell You to Assess and Improve Every Child’s Reading

By Mary Shea

© 2000

A method of recording and analyzing detailed information about a child’s reading competence.  It reveals skills and strategies a child uses to decode, comprehend, and interpret different kinds and levels of text.

RDG33

Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding

By Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis

©

 

RDG34

Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3-8

By Stephanie Harvey

© 1998

Offers teachers the tools to help students explore nonfiction and dig deep to reach more complete understanding of the real world and report these insights in a compelling manner.

RDG35

Literature Circles: Voices and Choice in Book Clubs & Reading Groups

By Harvey Daniels

© 2002

A thoroughly  revised and expanded guide to forming, managing, and assessing these peer-led book discussion groups. 

RDG36

I Read It, But I Don’t Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers

By Cris Tovani

© 2000

Is a practical, engaging account of how teachers can help adolescents develop new reading comprehension skills. 

RDG37

Apprenticeship in Literacy: Transitions Across Reading and Writing

By Linda J. Dorn, Cathy French, and Tammy Jones

© 1998

 This text will guide K-3 teachers as they develop a reading and writing program for all their students.  Am apprenticeship approach to literacy emphasizes the role of the teacher in providing demonstrations, engaging children, monitoring their understanding, providing timely support and, ultimately, withdrawing that support as the child gains independence.

RDG38

Shaping Literate Minds: Developing Self-Regulated Learners

By Linda J. Dorn and Carla Soffos

© 2001

This is a book about problem solving- an internal tool that shapes the cognitive development of young readers and writers.  It is also a book about the role of eh teacher and the curriculum in structuring problem solving opportunities.

RDG39

Scaffolding Young Writers: A Writers’ Workshop Approach

 By Linda J. Dorn and Carla Soffos

© 2001

The authors of this book present a clear road map for implementing writers’ workshop in the primary grades.

RDG40

Revisit, Reflect, Retell: Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension

By Linda Hoyt

© 1999

This highly practical collection of more than 130 strategies and 90 reproducible is the perfect resource for any teacher attempting to evoke high-quality responses to literature. It provides a detailed look at why to respond to text, when to respond to text, and how readers might be invited to respond in authentic ways. All of the strategies are classroom tested, and the black line masters offer powerful incentives for creative interactions.

RDG41

Classroom Strategies That Work: An Elementary Teacher’s Guide to Process Writing

By Ruth Nathan, Fances Temple, Kathleen Juntunen, and Charles Temple

© 1989

This book is based on workshop materials the authors developed for teachers who were interested in using the writing process approach but who needed detailed suggestions on getting started. This is a book for teachers new to the process approach as well as experienced teachers looking for ways to expand their efforts and to integrate writing within the whole fabric of language learning.

 

RDG42

Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader’s Workshop

By Ellin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmermann

© 1997

This book proposes a new instructional paradigm focused on in-depth instruction in the strategies used by proficient readers.  It is relevant to all literature-bases classrooms, regardless of level.  It offers practical tools for inservice teachers, as well as essential methods instruction for preservice teachers are both the undergraduate and graduate level.

RDG43

How’s It Going? A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers

By Carl Anderson

© 2000

Is a practical book, written in a conversational style, it’s filled with lots of useful advice, including an in-depth discussion of the teacher’s role in conferences, strategies for teaching students to take an active role, ways to weave in literature, mini-lessons, classroom management strategies, and responses to the most frequently asked questions about conferring.

RDG44

Good-Bye Round Robin: 25 Effective Oral reading Strategies

By Michael F. Optiz and Timothy V. Rasinski

© 1998

Is the first book of its kind, offering teachers a new alternative to traditional round robin reading—an outmoded practice that more often prohibits rather than facilitates the ability to read. The book is completely research based, demonstrating how to use oral reading to help students develop comprehension, share information, and discover effective reading strategies.

RDG45

Perspectives on Shared Reading: Planning and Practice

By Bobbie Fisher and Emily Fisher Medvic

© 2000

Will be lauded for its "best of both worlds" approach—pairing the views of a seasoned pro and fresh newcomer, melding theory with practice. But what will stand out most is its reaffirmation of the power of books.

RDG46

What a Writer Needs

By Ralph Fletcher

© 1993

Engages in anecdotal prose, it provides a wealth of specific, practical strategies for challenging and extending student writing.

RDG47

In the Middle: New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learning

By Nancie Atwell

© 2001

A practical book, providing everything a teacher needs to get the writing workshop up and running. In clear language, Fletcher and Portalupi explain the simple principles that underlie the writing workshop and explore the major components that make it work. The book closes with practical forms in the appendixes to ensure that the workshop runs smoothly.

RDG48

Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide

By Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi

© 2001

A practical book, providing everything a teacher needs to get the writing workshop up and running. It explains the simple principles that underlie the writing workshop and explore the major components that make it work.

RDG49

Writing Lessons For the Overhead: Grades 5 and Up

By Lola M. Schaefer

© 2000

This highly practical book contains the lessons and model you need to help students identify and use the elements of good writing.   You'll find teaching tips, discussions questions, and classroom-tested writing samples - already on transparencies.

RDG50

Building Fluency: Lessons and Strategies for Reading Success

By Wiley Blevins

© 2001

Includes an easy assessment, many fun activities, oral reading strategies, and word lists that targets words, syllables, and spelling patterns kids should master for fluent reading.

RDG51

Craft Lessons:  Teaching Writing K-8

By Ralph Fletcher & JoAnn Portalupi

© 1998

This is the practical text for the over-scheduled writing teacher who wants to give students fresh challenges for their writing but doesn't have time to pore over dozens of trade books to do so.

RDG52

Comprehension Cliffhanger Stories

By Tom Conklin

© 2003

This book contains 15 stories for building essential reading skills such as predicting, making inferences, summarizing and more.

RDG53

Literature Study Circles in a Multicultural Classroom

By Katherine Davies Samway and Gail Whang

© 1996

Appeals to all teachers who want to implement a literature-based curriculum. As a text for preservice teachers, the book will be applicable in language arts and reading courses.

RDG54

Reading & Writing in the Middle Years

By David Booth

© 2001

This is a no-nonsense exploration the latest and most successful approaches to teaching reading and writing to students in grades four to eight. 

RDG55

Notification:  Craft Lessons

By JoAnn Portalupi and Ralph Fletcher

© 2001

This book will help students breath voice into lifeless "dump-truck" writing and improve their nonfiction writing by making it clearer, more authoritative, and more organized. It gives teachers a wealth of practical strategies to help students grow into strong writers as they explore and explain the world around them.

RDG56

On The Same Page

By Janet Allen

© 2002

This book explores the use of shared reading as an instructional approach for readers and writers at all levels of language proficiency

RDG57

There’s Room For Me Here:  Literacy Workshop in the Middle School

By Janet Allen and Kyle Gonzalez

© 1998

This book includes record-keeping forms, extensive bibliographies of literature for shared and independent reading, professional materials and resource information, and examples of strategy lessons all embedded in this engaging story of a teacher’s first three years building a literacy workshop in her classroom.

RDG58

Running Records:  A Self-Tutoring Guide

Audio Book

By Peter H. Johnston

© 2000

A practical guide for teachers learning how to take running records of children’s oral reading. 

RDG59

Knowing How:  Researching and Writing Nonfiction 3-8

By Mary C. McMackin and Barbara S. Siegel

© 2002

Offers tools for teaching students how to write substantive, well-written research reports. Included are strategies for formulating research questions, collecting and organizing data, composing a first draft, and revising. Also included are sample letters to parents, a list of age-appropriate nonfiction picture books that model each of the strategies introduced, suggestions for using technology to enhance researching, and sample student reports.

 

RDG60

Is That a Fact? Teaching Notification Writing K-3

By Tony Stead

© 2002

This book shows you how to open the door to the rich world of nonfiction writing that goes beyond "what I did" narratives and animal reports. And he convincingly demonstrates the importance of introducing nonfiction writing in the primary grades.

RDG61

Response Journals Revisited:  Maximizing learning through reading, writing, viewing, discussing, and thinking

By Les Parsons

© 2001