The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research

The Daily 5: fostering literacy independence in the elementary grades

Gail Boushey, Joan Moser

Igniting a Passion for Reading: Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers

Steven L. Layne · 188 pages

Steven Layne shows teachers practical ways to engage and inspire readers from kindergarten through high school, to develop readers who are not only motivated to read great books, but also love reading in its own right. --from publisher description.

Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

Kelly Gallagher · 160 pages

Reading in the Wild

Donalyn Miller, Susan Kelley · 304 pages

"Explores whether or not we are truly instilling lifelong reading habits in our students and provides practical strategies for teaching 'wild' reading. Based on survey responses from over 900 adult readers and classroom feedback, [the book] offers ... advice and strategies on how to develop, encourage, and assess key lifelong reading habits, including dedicating time for reading, planning for futu

The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

Donalyn Miller · 227 pages

Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. Miller's unconventional approach dispenses with drills and worksheets that make reading a chore. Instead, she helps students navigate the world of literature and gives t

The Read-Aloud Handbook

Jim Trelease · 387 pages

The classic handbook on reading aloud to children - revised and updatedFor more than two decades, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. Now this new edition of The Read-Aloud Handbook imparts the benefits, rewards, and importance of read

The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

Susan Wise Bauer · 510 pages

"The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition."--Amazon.com.

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren · 398 pages

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

William Zinsser · 288 pages

In addition to exploring the techniques of nonfiction writing, Zinsser discusses sexism in writing, jargon, and psychological writing blocks.

Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship

Michelle Kuo · 320 pages

Michelle Kuo arrived in the rural town of Helena, Arkansas, as a Teach for America volunteer in 2004, bursting with optimism and drive. But she soon encountered the jarring realities of life in one of the poorest counties in America. In this unforgettable memoir, Michelle shares the story of her complicated but rewarding mentorship of one student, Patrick Browning, and his remarkable literary and

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Maryanne Wolf · 320 pages

In the Book. Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, Harper Perennial, 2008. This is an account of how our brains change as we learn to read.

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

Thomas C. Foster · 325 pages

What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface—a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character—and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you.In this practical an

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Jonathan Kozol · 262 pages

The Freedom Writers Diary

Erin Gruwell, Zlata Filipovic, The Freedom Writers · 292 pages

Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students--whose ranks included substance abusers, gang members, the homeless, and victims of abuse--Gruwell was the first person to treat them with dignity, to believe in their potential and help t

The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

Susan Wise Bauer, Jessie Wise · 864 pages

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education

John Taylor Gatto · 104 pages

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

Diane Ravitch · 462 pages

Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple--yet difficult--truth about how we can create actual change in public schools.

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel · 336 pages

To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concr

Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College

Doug Lemov · 332 pages

Offers easy-to-apply ideas for becoming an outstanding teacher.

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

bell hooks · 208 pages

In Teaching to Transgress bell hooks—writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual—writes about a new kind of education, *education as the practice of freedom*. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal.

The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

Salman Khan · 259 pages

"A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today, millions have viewed and subscribed to the Khan Academy's YouTube videos, which have expanded to encompass nearly every conceivable subject. Li

How to Become a Straight-A Student

Cal Newport · 224 pages

Offers time-management strategies, tips on taking tests, techniques for writing essays better and faster, and self-assessment tests to help students analyze their study skills.

Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom

Daniel T. Willingham · 320 pages

Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham has focused his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning and has a deep understanding of the daily challenges faced by classroom teachers. This book will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn revealing the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building kno

Experience and Education

John Dewey · 96 pages

*Experience and Education* is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after *Democracy and Education* (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position in educational philosophy), this book demonstrates how Dewey reformulated his ideas as a resul