Professional Texts about Reading, Reading Workshop, Conferring, Assessment, and Reading 2.0

Print Resources for K-6

Teachers engaging (Reilly, Newark, NJ 2014)

I.               Texts About Comprehension & Literacy

Allington, Richard L. (Ed.). (2010). Essential Readings on Struggling  Learners.  Newark, DE: IRA.

Barnhouse, Dorothy & Vicki Vinton. (2012). What Readers Really Do: Teaching the Process of Meaning Making. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Campano, Gerald. (2007).  Immigrant Students and Literacy: Reading, Writing, and Remembering . New York: Teachers College Press.

Dorn, Linda & Carla Soffos. (2005). Teaching for Deep Comprehension. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.

Fountas, Irene  & Gay Su Pinnell (2006). Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency: Thinking, Talking, and Writing About Reading, K-8. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Miller, Debbie. (2013). Reading with Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.

Serafini, Frank (2004). Lessons in Comprehension: Explicit Instruction in the Reading Workshop. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Strickland, Dorothy, (Ed.). (2010). Essential Readings in Early Literacy. Newark, DE: IRA.

Taberski, Sharon. (2010). Comprehension from the Ground Up: Simplified, Sensible Instruction for the K-3 Reading Workshop. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

II.              Texts about Reading Workshop

Akhavan, Nancy. (2008).The Content-Rich Reading & Writ​ing Workshop: A Time-Saving Approach for Making the Most of Your Literacy Block. New York: Scholastic.

Barnhouse, Dorothy. (2014). Readers Front and Center. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.

Bennett, Samantha. (2007). That Workshop Book: New Systems and Structures for Classrooms That Read, Write, and Think. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Collins, Kathy. (2008). Reading for Real: Teach Students to Read with Power, Intention, and Joy in K-3 Classrooms. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.

Collins, Kathy. (2004). Growing Readers: Units of Study in the Primary Classroom. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.

Hahn, Mary Lee. (2002). Reconsidering Read-Aloud. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.

Heard, Georgia & Jennifer McDonough. (2009). A Place for Wonder: Reading and Writing Nonfiction in the Primary Grades. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.

Orehovec, Barbara & Marybeth Alley. (2003). Revisiting The Reading Workshop: A Complete Guide to Organizing and Managing an Effective Reading Workshop That Builds Independent, Strategic Readers (Scholastic Teaching Strategies). New York: Scholastic.

Parsons, Stephanie. (2010). First Grade Readers: Units of Study to Help Children See Themselves as Meaning Makers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Reif, Linda. (2014). Read Write Teach: Choice and Challenge in the Reading-Writin​g Workshop. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Serafini, Frank (2001). The Reading Workshop: Creating Space for Readers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Serafini, Frank & Suzette Serafini-Youngs. (2006). Around the Reading Workshop in 180 Days: A Month-by-Month Guide to Effective Instruction. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Sibberson, Franki. (2012). The Joy of Planning: Designing Minilesson Cycles in Grades 3-6. Holden, ME: Choice Literacy.

Sibberson, Franki & Karen Szymusiak. (2003). Still Learning to Read: Teaching Students in Grades 3-6. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.

III. Texts about Teacher Language & Student Talk & Conferring

Allen, Patrick A. (2009). Conferring: The Keystone of Reader's Workshop. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.

Genishi, Ceila & Anne Haas Dyson. (2009). Children Language & Literacy. New York: Teachers College Press.

Johnston, Peter H. (2012). Opening Minds: Using Language to Change Lives. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.

Johnston, Peter H.  (2004). Choice Words. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.

Lindsfor, Judith Wells. (2008). Children's Language: Connecting Reading, Writing, and Talk. New York: Teachers College Press.

Nichols, Maria. (2008). Talking About Text: Guiding Students to Increase Comprehension Through Purposeful Talk . Huntington Beach, CA: Shell Education.

Nichols, Maria. (2006). Comprehension Through Conversation: The Power of Purposeful Talk in the Reading Workshop. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Serravallo, Jennifer  & Gravity Goldberg (2007). Conferring with Readers: Supporting Each Student's Growth and Independence. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Zwiers, Jeff & Marie Crawford. (2012). Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.

III. Texts About Assessment

Sibberson, Franki & Karen Szymusiak. (2008). Day-to-Day Assessment in the Reading Workshop: Making Informed Instructional Decisions in Grades 3-6. New York: Scholastic.

Yetta Goodman, Yetta  Gretchen Owocki. (2002). Kidwatching: Documenting Children's Literacy Development. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

IV. Texts about Reading & Technology

Hyler, Jeremy & Troy Hicks. (2014). Create, Compose, Connect!: Reading, Writing, and Learning with Digital Tools. New York: Routledge. 

Johnson, Denise. (2014). Reading, Writing, and Literacy 2.0: Teaching with Online Texts, Tools, and Resources, K–8. New York: Teachers College Press.

Miller, Suzanne M. & Mary B. McVee (Eds.) (2012). Multimodal Composing in Classrooms: Learning and Teaching for the Digital World. New York: Routledge. 

Serafini, Frank (2015). Reading Workshop 2.0. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. (To be published. Info here).

Vasquez, Vivian Maria  & Carol Branigan Felderman. (2012). Technology and Critical Literacy in Early Childhood. New York: Routledge.