Literacy

Books
 * //Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading & What You Can Do About It// by Kelly Gallagher
 * //​Deeper Reading​// by Kelly Gallagher
 * //The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child// by Donalyn Miller
 * //Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits// by Donalyn Miller & Susan Kelley
 * //Igniting a Passion for Reading: Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers// by Steven Layne
 * //Passionate Readers: The Art of Reaching and Engaging Every Child// by Pernille Ripp
 * //Engaging Adolescents in Reading// by John T. Guthrie
 * //The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers// by Nancie Atwell
 * //Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers// by Penny Kittle
 * //The Creativity Project// by Colby Sharp
 * //No More Reading for Junk: Best Practices for Motivating Readers// by Barbara Marinak
 * //The Construction Zone: Building Scaffolds for Readers & Writers// by Terry Thompson
 * //Creating Lifelong Readers Through Independent Reading​// by Barbara Moss & Terrell Young
 * //Choosing to Read: Connecting Middle Schoolers to Books// by Joan Schroeder Kindig
 * //​Reading Aloud and Beyond: Fostering the Intellectual Life With Older Readers// by Frank Serafini and Cyndy Giorgis
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//The Literacy Cookbook: A Practical Guide to Effective Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening Instruction// by Sarah Tantillo
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Teaching the Best Practice Way// by Harvey Daniels & Marilyn Bizar <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> (great chapter="Reading as Thinking")
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever// by Mem Fox
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning// by Peter H. Johnston
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina & Passion in Adolescent Readers// by Penny Kittle
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Ban the Book Report: Promoting Frequent and Enthusiastic Reading​// by Graham Foster
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Conferring With Readers: Supporting Each Student's Growth & Independence// by Jennifer Serravallo & Gravity Goldberg
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//The Reading Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Readers// by Jennifer Serravallo
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//The SSR Handbook: How to Organize and Manage a Sustained Silent Reading Program// by Janice Pilgreen
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Reading Without Limits: Teaching Strategies to Build Independent Reading for Life// ​by Maddie Witter
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Vocabulary Is Comprehension: Getting to the Root of Complex Texts// by Laura Robb
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Notice & Notes: Strategies for Close Reading// by Kylene Beers
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Falling in Love With Close Reading// by Chris Lehman
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Using Informational Text to Teach Literature// by Susan Chanelle
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//This Is Disciplinary Literacy: Reading, Writing, Thinking, and Doing...Content Area By Content Area// by ReLeah Cossett Lent
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Make Writing: 5 Teaching Strategies That Turn Writer's Workshop Into a Maker Space// by Angela Stockman
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Heart Maps: Helping Students Create and Craft Authentic Writing// by Georgia Heard
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Assessing Students' Digital Writing: Protocols for Looking Closely// by Troy Hicks
 * //<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Navigating the Common Core with English Language Learners: Practical Strategies to Develop Higher-Order Thinking Skills // <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">by Larry Ferlazzo & Katie Hull Sypnieski
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens// ​by Stephen Apkon
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in the Digital World// by Naomi S. Baron
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Media Literacy in the K-12 Classroom// by Frank Baker
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Close Reading the Media// by Frank Baker
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain// by Brock Eide and Fernette Eide

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Articles & Blog Posts <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Paper vs Digital:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Transilliterate (blog post by Doug Johnson)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Let My People Read (blog post by Donalyn Miller)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I Am What I Read: 5 Ways To Nurture Reading Identity (blog post by Paula Bourque)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Enough... (It Is Time For Us To Become Reading Warriors) (blog post by Pernille Ripp)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How to Create Nonreaders: Reflections on Motivation, Learning, & Sharing Power (article by Alfie Kohn)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Why Our Future Depends on Libraries, Reading and Daydreaming (speech by Neil Gaiman)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How to Get Your Mind to Read (article by Daniel Willingham)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Quality Student Blogs: Part I (blog post by Kathleen Morris)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Quality Student Blogs: Part II (blog post by Kathleen Morris)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Build An Audience For Your Students' Blogs With QuadBlogging (blog post by Richard Byrne)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Blogging is the New Persuasive Essay (blog post by Shelley Wright)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How To Create Successful Student Blogging - Taking It To a Deeper Level (post by Pernille Ripp)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How Blogging Can Improve Student Writing (blog post by Ben Curran)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Blogging in the 21st Century Classroom (blog post by Michelle Lampinen)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I Make Them Blog, But Do They Want To? (blog post by Pernille Ripp)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Why Digital Writing Matters (article by Jeff Grabill)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Teaching Authentic Writing in a Socially Mediated World (post by Susan Lucille Davis)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Best Places Where Students Can Write for an "Authentic Audience" (blog post by Larry Ferlazzo)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How Do Tech Tools Affect the Way Students Write? (article by Katrina Schwartz)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How Self-Expression Damaged My Students (article by Robert Pondiscio)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Vocabulary: 5 Common Misconceptions (article by Nancy Padak et. al.)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Why Kids Need GoodReads (blog post by Bill Ferriter)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">My Kids Are Illiterate. Most Likely, Yours Are Too (article by Will Richardson)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What Does It Mean To Be Literate? (blog post by Nicholas Provenzano)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Dodge Ball ( <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;">how dodge ball is like reading) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> (blog post by Donna Gephart)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Warning! Close Reading Questions More Problems Than They Appear (blog post by Colette Marie Bennett)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">When We Harm Rather than Help - Some Thoughts on Reading Interventions (blog post by Pernille Ripp)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Beyond the Book Report: Ways to Respond to Literature Using the New York Times Model (NYT resource page)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Why kids still need 'real books' to read - and time in school to enjoy them (speech by Nancie Atwell)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">3 Steps for Critical Re-Evaluation of Our Classroom Library (blog post by Pernille Ripp)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This is my Anti-Lexile, Anti-Reading Level Post (blog post by Ricki Ginsburg)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">We Don't Need Badges for Reading (blog post by Michelle Baldwin)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(Reading) Touchstones (blog post by Donalyn Miller)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Why Boys Don't Read Girls (Sometimes) (blog post by Shannon Hale)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Helping Teachers Rediscover Reading (blog post by Margaret Hale)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How To Support Our Strongest Readers (blog post by Pernille Ripp)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Is Listening to a Book 'Cheating?' (article by Daniel Willingham)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Top 10 Ways To Turn Your Classroom Into a Hotbed of Enthusiastic Readers (blog post by Megan Ginther & Holly Mueller)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Some Rules We Need to Break In Our Reading Classrooms (blog post by Pernille Ripp)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Using Spam Emails in Your Classroom (article by Alan Gillespie)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Supporting Older Students' Reading (article by Kim Gutchewsky & Joanne Curran)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Why Reading Aloud to Older Children is Valuable (article by Holly Korbey)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I Am Not a Writer: On Developing Student Writing Identity (blog post by Pernille Ripp)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Future of Research (blog post by Jennifer LaGarde
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How To Combat Student Plagiarism (blog post by Jen Carey)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Preferred Text (blog post by Kevin Hodgson)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">On Growing 'Knowledge Citizens' <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(aka: How to Get Kids to 'Thinkerize') <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> (blog post by Joyce Valenza)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How To Create Non-Readers: Reflections on Motivation, Learning, & Shared Power (article by Alfie Kohn)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Develop Strong Reading Skills Early: Skimming vs. Reading (blog post by Amy Mascott)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Must We Be Passionate Readers to Teach Reading? (blog post by Pernille Ripp)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Having a Classroom Library is Not Enough (blog post by Pernille Ripp)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Writer Igniter (online tool)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Citations Are Out of Style (blog post by Karl Fisch)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens (article by Ferris Jabr)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Your paper brain and your Kindle brain aren't the same thing (radio interview)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Why Digital Reading Is No Substitute for Print (article by Naomi Baron)

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