Books/Resources

The Reading Teacher’s Book of Lists

Gr. K-12. 5th Edition. Over 218 of the most useful lists for developing instruction materials and planning lessons – at your fingertips! Organized into 15 sections for quick access, each has examples, key words, teaching ideas, and acti... More.

Designing and Using Rubrics for Reading and Language Arts, K-6

Enhance literacy instruction using an essential tool for effective instruction and assessing student achievement – rubrics! This book provides a teacher-friendly, step-by-step guide for creating and using rubrics. Helps ensure that stu... More.

What Really Matters for Struggling Readers

Gr. 2-9 A concise, balanced introduction to reading, remediation, intervention programs, and struggling readers. Includes research on vocabulary development, fluency, and comprehension. Focuses on helping teachers design reading remediation a... More.

The Title I Teacher’s Guide to Teaching Reading: K-3

A pragmatic, goal-oriented approach to meeting reading benchmarks. Illustrates instruction that looks beyond the government’s free-lunch label to see exciting possibilities for every child. The book shows how reading workshops and units of... More.

Snapshots: Literacy Minilessons Up Close

Gr. K-5. By Linda Hoyt. Over 170 mini-lessons for understanding individual words and whole texts, fiction and nonfiction, oral reading, guided reading, independent reading, and writing. Each mini-lesson is accompanied by a thorough ex... More.