Professional Reading

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Reading Strategies Book: “Strategies make the often invisible work of reading actionable and visible. In The Reading Strategies Book, I collected 300 strategies to share with readers in support of thirteen goals-everything from fluency to literary analysis. Each strategy is cross-linked to skills, genres, and Fountas & Pinnell reading levels to give you just-right teaching, just in time. With this book you’ll: develop goals for every reader give students step-by-step strategies for skilled reading, guide readers with prompts aligned to the strategies, adjust instruction to meet individual needs with Jen’s Teaching Tips craft demonstrations and explanations with her Lesson Language, learn more with Hat Tips to the work of influential teacher-authors.” Writing Strategies Book: “Organized around 10 crucial instructional goals, the book is filled with 300 strategies to support students as they compose with pictures, engage with writing, generate their own ideas, focus, organize, elaborate, consider word choice, spell, consider grammar and punctuation choices, and collaborate with other writers in partnerships and writing clubs. Whether you teach with writing workshop, 6+1 Traits, or by any other means, you’ll discover a wealth of ideas for strategies to share with students for whole-group, small-group, or one-to-one instruction.”

Falling in Love with Close Reading by Christopher Lehman & Kate Roberts “Love brings us in close, leads us to study the details of a thing, and asks us to return again and again.  These are the motivations and ideas that built this book.”  -Chris Lehman and Kate Roberts You and your students will fall for close reading. This text shows us that it can be rigorous, meaningful, and joyous.  You’ll empower students to not only analyze texts but to admire the craft of a beloved book, study favorite songs and videogames, and challenge peers in evidence based discussions.

The Literacy Teacher's Playbook by Jennifer Serravallo Serravallo discusses multiple ways to collect student work and how to use the work as data in grades 3 - 6.  She describes how to analyze data by using a case study approach with student examples. This text overviews how to create an action plan for our students after reviewing their work.  This is a great book to read with colleagues and bring your own students' work to apply her methods.