This weekend I got the fall catalogue from Stenhouse, and these are the books I can't wait to read:
*Mark Overmeyer's What Student Writing Teaches Us (I also got a flier yesterday that also mentioned his book When Writing Workshop Isn't Working. I can't wait to read it either.)
I have wanted to read this one since his blog tour this summer. Just as I loved Anderson's ideas, I can't wait to read Overmeyer's full books. They reference each other and seem to have complementing viewpoints. Insights from both will strengthen my workshops.
*Ralph Fletcher's Boy Writers
Ralph Fletcher is what my college professors would have referred to as a "big name" when it comes to workshop. I also love the angle of capturing the attention and igniting a passion for writing in my boy students. I shared a slice of life story from the book with my students this fall and it was an excellent model. I know this resource will also be extremely beneficial to the development and improvement of my first attempt at a workshop model. I already have Fletcher's co-authored Craft Lessons books (fiction and non-fiction).
*Jennifer Allen's Becoming a Literacy Leader, Tools for Teaching Content Literacy, and More Tools for Teaching Content Literacy
After reading Allen's A A Sense of Belonging I can't wait to read more. I love her writing style and it is apparent that she has a strong knowledge base in literacy.
*Janet Allen's Inside Words
In our dual immersion school developing academic language with our middle schoolers is a goal that is moving to the forefront and an essential skills that they must develop in order to be successful in high school and college. My teaching partner and I are both focusing our attention on this need and viewing it as an important part of our philosophy that middle school is a time of transition aiming to provide students with the abilities/skills necessary to be successful in their next phase of education. This book appears that it would give us more thoughts as we consider how to best address this in our middle school programs.
*Amy H. Greene and Glennon Doyle Melton's Test Talk
I always love ideas on how to integrate test preparation in to best practices, rather than addressing the issue through formulaic, isolated means.
*Matt Copeland's Socratic Circles
This one has been on my to-read list for quite a while. One day I will finally get it...
*Patrick A. Allen's Conferring
Coming in November, this book will be so helpful as I am doing a reading workshop model for the first time this year. Conferring is one of the areas where I would like to dig deeper as I develop reading and writing workshops. I know that this is an area where I can still improve a lot and it is essential for a successful workshop.
*Steven L. Layne's Igniting a Passion for Reading
Expected in December, I can never resist a book aimed at creating life long readers and a culture of reading.
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