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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

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  • A Way To Teach
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Books Used in my Classes

The Great Gatsby
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Canterbury Tales
Walden and Civil Disobedience
The Crucible
Science Verse
The Poisonwood Bible
The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups
Paint Me a Poem: Poems Inspired by Masterpieces of Art
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Things They Carried
Miss Nelson Is Missing!
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!
Oh, Say Can You Say?
The Book Thief
Ender's Game
Guys Write for Guys Read: Boys' Favorite Authors Write About Being Boys
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven


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Professional Books I Use to Shape my Curriculum:

  • 100 Quickwrites: Fast and Effective Freewriting Exercises That Build Students' Confidence, Develop Their Fluency, and Bring Out the Writer in Every Student
  • 50 Essential Lessons: Tools and Techniques for Teaching English Language Arts
  • A Teacher's Guide to the Multigenre Research Project
  • Action Strategies for Deepening Comprehension: Role Plays, Text Structure Tableaux, Talking Statues, and Other Enrichment Techniques That Engage Students with Text
  • Active Voice
  • Adolescents on the Edge: Stories and Lessons to Transform Learning
  • After THE END: Teaching and Learning Creative Revision
  • America Now: Short Readings from Recent Periodicals
  • Assessing Writers
  • Assessment Live!: 10 Real-Time Ways for Kids to Show What They Know--and Meet the Standards
  • Background Knowledge: The Missing Piece of the Comprehension Puzzle
  • Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays
  • Blending Genre, Altering Style: Writing Multigenre Papers
  • Bridging English
  • Classroom Management for Middle and High School Teachers
  • Clearing the Way: Working with Teenage Writers
  • Clock Watchers: Six Steps to Motivating and Engaging Disengaged Students Across Content Areas
  • Coaching Writing The Power of Guided Practice
  • Comprehension and Collaboration: Inquiry Circles in Action
  • Content-Area Writing: Every Teacher's Guide
  • Crafting Authentic Voice
  • Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief
  • Cultivating Heart and Character: Educating for Life's Most Essential Goals
  • Deeper Reading: Comprehending Challenging Texts
  • Discovering Voice: Voice Lessons for Middle and High Schoo
  • Doing Literary Criticism: Helping Students Engage with Challenging Texts
  • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
  • English Teacher's Survival Guide
  • Everyday Editing: Inviting Students to Develop Skill and Craft in Writer's Workshop
  • Everything's an Argument with Readings
  • Expository Composition: Discovering Your Voice
  • Finding the Artist Within: Creating and Reading Visual Texts in the English Language Arts Classroom
  • Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What Really Matters about Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme
  • Genre Theory: Teaching, Writing, and Being
  • Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises
  • Grammar Alive: A Guide for Teachers
  • Grammar for College Writing: A Sentence-Composing Approach
  • Grammar for High School: A Sentence-Composing Approach---A Student Worktext
  • Grammar Punk Creative
  • Grammarama!
  • High Definition: Unforgettable Vocabulary-Building Strategies Across Genres and Subjects
  • Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones: Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting For
  • How to Handle the Paper Load
  • How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
  • Image Grammar: Using Grammatical Structures to Teach Writing
  • In the Middle: New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learning
  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
  • Inquiry and the Literary Text: Constructing Discussions in the English Classroom
  • Inside the Writer's-Reader's Notebook A Workshop Essential
  • Instruction: A Models Approach
  • Is It Done Yet?: Teaching Adolescents the Art of Revision
  • Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction
  • Langston Hughes in the Classroom: "Do Nothin' till You Hear from Me"
  • Less Is More: Teaching Literature with Short Texts, Grades 6-12
  • Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
  • Lessons That Change Writers
  • Lessons to Share on Teaching Grammar in Context
  • Literature as Exploration
  • Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs & Reading Groups
  • Macbeth with Related Readings
  • Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
  • Making the Journey: Being and Becoming a Teacher of English Language Arts
  • Making the Match: The Right Book for the Right Reader at the Right Time, Grades 4-12
  • Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style into Writer's Workshop
  • Mini-Lessons for Literature Circles
  • More Ways to Handle the Paper Load: On Paper and Online
  • My Quick Writes: For INSIDE WRITING
  • Naming the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons
  • Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching
  • Nitty-Gritty Grammar: A Not-So-Serious Guide to Clear Communication
  • Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research
  • Notebook Know-How: Strategies for the Writer's Notebook
  • Outliers: The Story of Success
  • Papers, Papers, Papers: An English Teacher's Survival Guide
  • Plagiarism: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It
  • Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words
  • Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology
  • Reader's Guide to the Great Gatsby: Resources for Reading and Discussion
  • Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It
  • Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom
  • Reading Ladders: Leading Students from Where They Are to Where We'd Like Them to Be
  • Reading Reasons: Motivational Mini-Lessons for Middle and High School
  • Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
  • Reading, Writing, and Rising Up
  • Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment
  • Rhetoric: Discovery and Change
  • Schools Without Failure
  • Sentence Composing for College: A Worktext on Sentence Variety and Maturity
  • Sentence Composing for High School: A Worktext on Sentence Variety and Maturity
  • Sentence Composing for Middle School: A Worktext on Sentence Variety and Maturity
  • Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth
  • Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Hamlet and Henry IV Part I
  • Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Twelfth Night and Othello
  • Sherman Alexie in the Classroom: "This is not a silent movie. Our voices will save our lives."
  • Shoes on the Highway: Using Visual and Audio Cues to Inspire Student Playwrights
  • Speak Up: An Illustrated Guide to Public Speaking
  • Strategic Writing: The Writing Process and Beyond in the Secondary English Classroom
  • Study Driven: A Framework for Planning Units of Study in the Writing Workshop
  • Substitute Teachers' Lesson Plans
  • Summarization In Any Subject: 50 Techniques To Improve Student Learning
  • Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College
  • Teaching Adolescent Writers
  • Teaching Argument Writing, Grades 6-12: Supporting Claims with Relevant Evidence and Clear Reasoning
  • Teaching for Joy and Justice: Re-Imagining the Language Arts Classroom
  • Teaching Graphic Novels: Practical Strategies for the Secondary ELA Classroom
  • Teaching Poetry in High School
  • Teaching the Screen: Film Education for Generation Next
  • Teaching With Love and Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom
  • Texts and Lessons for Content-Area Reading
  • The 9 Rights of Every Writer: A Guide for Teachers
  • The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
  • The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners
  • The Digital Writing Workshop
  • The English Teacher's Companion
  • The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher
  • The Great Gatsby in the Classroom: Searching for the American Dream
  • The I-Search Paper: Revised Edition of Searching Writing
  • The Journal Book
  • The Lively Art of Writing
  • The No-Nonsense Guide to Teaching Writing: Strategies, Structures, and Solutions
  • The Power of Community-Centered Education: Teaching as a Craft of Place
  • The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers
  • The Reading/Writing Connection: Strategies for Teaching and Learning in the Secondary Classroom
  • The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching in the New Media Age
  • The SSR Handbook: How to Organize and Manage a Sustained Silent Reading Program
  • The Synergetic Classroom: Joyful Teaching and Gentle Discipline
  • The Teacher's Daybook
  • The Writing-Rich High School Classroom: Engaging Students in the Writing Workshop
  • They Say / I Say: The Moves that Matter in Persuasive Writing
  • Thinking Out Loud on Paper: The Student Daybook as a Tool to Foster Learning
  • Thirty Ideas for Teaching Writing
  • Tim O'Brien in the Classroom: "This too is true: Stories can save us"
  • Time for Meaning: Crafting Literate Lives in Middle & High School
  • Understanding by Design
  • Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
  • Using Picture Books to Teach Writing With the Traits
  • Using Picture Storybooks to Teach Literary Devices: Recommended Books for Children and Young Adults
  • Using Technology to Improve Adolescent Writing: Digital Make-Overs for Writing Lessons
  • Voice Lessons: Classroom Activities to Teach Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax, and Tone
  • What Is "College-Level" Writing?
  • What's the Big Idea?: Question Driven Units to Motivate Reading, Writing, and Thinking
  • Why We Must Run With Scissors: Voice Lessons in Persuasive Writing 3-12
  • With Rigor for All: Teaching the Classics to Contemporary Students
  • Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12
  • Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing
  • Write For Insight: Empowering Content Area Learning
  • Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling and Mentor Texts
  • Write What You See: 99 Photos to Inspire Writing
  • Writing at the Threshold: Featuring 56 Ways to Prepare High School and College Students to Think and Write at the College Level
  • Writing Circles: Kids Revolutionize Workshop
  • Writing on Demand: Best Practices and Strategies for Success
  • Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone: Helping Students Navigate Unfamiliar Genres
  • Writing Toward Home: Tales and Lessons to Find Your Way
  • Writing with Passion: Life Stories, Multiple Genres
  • Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing
  • You Gotta BE the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading with Adolescents
  • Zigzag: A Life of Reading and Writing, Teaching and Learning
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Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones: Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting For
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Help
The Ask and the Answer
Unwind
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Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
Hidden Talents
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