Favorite Books for Teaching

*  5- to 10-Minute Literacy Activities for Young Learners (Scholastic - isbn 0-439-42055-5)

*  25 Super-Fun Spelling Games:   Easy, Reproducible Games That Help Kids Learn the Words on Their Spelling Lists (Scholastic - isbn 0-590-52211-6)

*  40 Rubrics & Checklists to Assess Reading and Writing:  Grades 3-6 (Scholastic:  isbn 0-590-01787-x)

*  40 Wonderful:  Blend & Digraph Poems (Scholastic - isbn 0-439-43893)

*  Balancing Literacy:  A Balanced Approach to Reading and Writing Instruction (Creative Teaching Press - isbn 1-57471-701-4)

*  Building Fluency:  Lessons and Strategies for Reading Success (grades 2-6)  (Scholastic - isbn 0-439-28838-x)

*  Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6-12;  A toolkit of Classroom Activities (International Reading Association - isbn 0-87207-539-7)

*  Civil Rights Read-Aloud Plays:  5 Short Plays for Building Fluency, Vocabulary, and Content Area Knowledge (grades 4-8) (Scholastic - isbn 0-439-53810-6

*  Coaching Struggling Readers:  Getting Sidelined Readers Off the Bench and Back in the Game (grades 3-5) (Creative Teaching Press - isbn 1-57471-700-6)

*  Craft Lessons:  Teaching Writing K-8 by Ralph Fletcher and Joann Portalupi (Stenhouse Publishers - isbn 1-51710-073-3)

* Easy Lessons for Teaching Word Families:  Hands-on Lessons That Build Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Spelling, Reading and Writing Skills (grades k-2)  (Scholastic -isbn 0-590-68570-8)

*  First Graphic Organizers:  Reading (K-12) (Scholastic - isbn 0-439-45828-5)

*  Graphic Organizers and Activities for Differentiated Instruction in Reading (Scholastic - isbn 0-439-33165-x)

*  Great Shapes Stationary (Scholastic - isbn 0-590-22736-x)

*  Guided Reading:  Good First Teaching for All Children (Heinemann - isbn 0-435-08863-7)

*  Guiding Readers and Writers Grades 3-6:  Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy  (Heinemann - isbn 0-325-00310-6)

* Jump*Start 2nd Grade Phonics (Scholastic - isbn 0-439-17645-x)

*  Nonfiction Craft Lessons:  Teaching Information Writing K-8 by Joann Portalupi and Ralph Fletcher (Stenhouse Publishers - isbn 1-57110-329-5)

*  Phonics from A to Z:  A Practical Guide (Scholastic - isbn 0-590-31510-2)

*  Phonological Awareness:  Early Literacy Activities that Build a Foundation for Reading (The Mailbox - isbn 1-56234-524-9)

*  Reading Response Trifolds for 40 Favorite Novels (Scholastic - isbn 0-439-49165-7)

*  Ready-to-Use Independent Reading Management Kit (Scholastic - isbn 0-439-36591-0)

*  Reviser's Toolbox by Barry lane (Discover Writing Press - isbn 0-9656574-4-2)

*  Revisiting the Reading Workshop: Management, Mini-Lessons, and Strategies (Scholastic - isbn 0-439-44404-7)

*  Spelling Secrets:  Surefire Strategies and Super-Fun Activities, Mini-Books, and Games That Help Kids Master Hundreds of Tricky Words (isbn 0-439-37073-6)

*  Taking Running Records:  Grades 1-3  Scholastic - isbn 0-4339-07752-4)

*  Teaching Genre:  Grades 4-8 (Scholastic - isbn 0-590-60345-0)

*  Teaching Literary Elements:  Grades 4-8 (Scholastic - isbn 0-590- 20945-0)

*  Teaching Story Elements with Favorite Books: Grades 1-3(Scholastic - isbn 0-590-76988-X)

*  Teaching the Essentials of Reading with Picture Books:  Grades k-2 (Scholastic - isbn 0-439-53990-0)

*  Word Learning, Word Making, Word Sorting:  50 Lessons for Succes (grades k-2) (Scholastic - isbn 0-439-20578-6)

*  Words Their Way:  Word Sorts for Derivational Relations Spellers (Pearson - isbn 0-13-171812-6)

*  A Writer's Notebook by Ralph Fletcher (Harper Collins - isbn-13:  978-0-380-78430-1)

*  Writing Workshop:  The Essential Guide by Ralph Fletcher and Joann Portalupi (Heinemann - isbn 0-325-00362-9)