What Are You Reading? Teachers Share Their Professional Reading Favorites

During our first LNW sessions, we <LOVED> that teachers were sharing what they are currently reading professionally.  Another amazing thing to SHARE?  Yes, please!  Love, love, love! :-)

Garrett Lowder, fourth grade, and Lori Elliott and Josh Bennett, fifth grade, shared Notebook Know-How:  Strategies for the Writer's Notebook by Aimee Buckner.  They mentioned Aimee's nonfiction version Nonfiction Notebooks:  Strategies for Informational Writing and her Notebook Connections:  Strategies for the Reader's Notebook as well.

Steinhouse explains that Buckner "provides the tools teachers need to make writers' notebooks an integral part of their writing programs. This compact guide shows how smart and focused use of writer's notebooks enhances and deepens literacy learning for students in grades 3–8, while also addressing many of the questions teachers ask when they start using notebooks, including how to launch a notebook and how to help students who are stuck in writing ruts".

We've all read Harry Wong's The First Days of School.  But Tammy Myers, fourth grade, found a book she likes even better!  WHAT?!?!?  She highly recommended The Cornerstone:  Classroom Management That Makes Teaching More Effective, Efficient, and Enjoyable by Angela Powell.  Angela (now Watson), even has a website with free resources, printables, and a link to her blog.

Tammy is also loving Bringing Common Core to Life in K-8 Classrooms:  Engagement at Every Level of Thinking by Eric Jensen and Leann Nickelsen.  Click on the link to get Solution Tree's printable reproducibles from the book.

The fourth grade teachers at Summit shared these little gems with us while they were at LNW:

 Comprehension Connections Bridges to Strategic Reading by Tanny McGregor

and Genre Connections:  Lessons to Launch Literary and Nonfiction Texts also by Tanny McGregor.

Dr. Kevin Kopp got in on the action by sharing a book he was reading called Best Practice:  Bringing Standards to Life by Steven Zemelman, Harvey Daniels, and Arthur Hyde.  Heinemann describes Best Practice as "the ultimate guide to teaching excellence. Its framework of seven Best Practice Structures and cutting-edge implementation strategies are proven across the grades and subject areas. BP4 creates common ground for teachers, leaders, and principals by recommending practices drawn from the latest scientific research, professional consensus, and the innovative classrooms of exemplary teachers".  

Thanks for the share, friends!