Additional Secondary Resources for a Comprehensive Approach to Literacy
Using the Workshop Approach in the High School English Classroom: Modeling Effective Writing, Reading, and Thinking Strategies for Student Success by Cynthia D. Urbanski
This practical guide addresses the daily running and practice of a workshop-based classroom, using research and the author’s own experiences to illustrate how to establish a workshop. 
Writing Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling & Mentor Texts by Kelly Gallagher
If you want to be a writer, you begin by carefully observing the work of accomplished writers. Recognizing the importance that modeling plays in the learning process, high school English teacher Kelly Gallagher shares how he gets his students to stand next to and pay close attention to model writers, and how doing so elevates his students' writing abilities. |
In The Middle: A Lifetime of Learning About Writing, Reading, and Adolescents by Nancie Atwell
This edition represents Nancie Atwell’s current best set of blueprints for how I build and maintain a writing-reading workshop—the expectations, demonstrations, models, choices, and resources. 
The Reading Strategies Book: Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Readers by Jennifer Serravallo
In The Reading Strategies Book, the author collects 300 strategies to share with readers in support of thirteen goals-everything from fluency to literary analysis. Each strategy is cross-linked to skills, genres, and Fountas & Pinnell reading levels to give you just-right teaching, just in time. Whether you use readers workshop, guided reading, whole-class novels, or any other approach, The Reading Strategies Book will complement and extend your teaching. Rely on it to plan and implement goal-directed, differentiated instruction for individuals, small groups, and whole classes. |
Building Adolescent Literacy in Today's English Classrooms by Randy Bomer
Building Adolescent Literacy in Today's English Classrooms is built on a foundation of research into best practices and infused with the importance of young people learning to interact with others' texts and to produce their own across many genres and media. Bomer tackles not only reading, writing, and assessment, but also crucial contemporary topics such as choice, ethnic diversity and multilingualism, attention management, technology, and struggling learners. |
The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers by Nancie Atwell
Long an advocate of frequent, voluminous reading in schools, the author draws on evidence gathered in twenty years of classroom teaching to make the case for reading workshop more powerful than ever. The book establishes the top ten conditions for making engaged classroom reading possible for students at all levels and provides the practical support and structures necessary for achieving them. |
Differentiation in Practice: A Resource Guide for Differentiating Curriculum, Grades 9-12 by Carol Ann Tomlinson & Cindy A. Strickland
Focusing on the high school grades, but applicable at all levels, Differentiation in Practice, Grades 9–12 will teach anyone interested in designing and implementing differentiated curriculum how to do so or how to do so more effectively. 
Mosaic of Thought: The Power of Comprehension Strategy Instruction, Second Edition by Ellin Oliver Keene & Susan Zimmerman
Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition, has been carefully revised and reflects Keene and Zimmermann's latest thinking. It's designed to help teachers implement practical, thoughtful ideas for teaching comprehension in contemporary classrooms through the seven core strategies that successful readers use to engage with texts. 
The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum: A Tool for Assessment, Planning and Teaching by Irene C. Fountas & Gay Su Pinnell
There has never been a more comprehensive resource available to teachers that does what the continuum does - provide specific behaviors and understandings that are required at each level for students to demonstrate thinking within, beyond, and about the text. These behaviors and understandings describe what students will be expected to do in order to effectively read and understand the text. 
Differentiation and the Brain: How Neuroscience Supports the Learner-Friendly Classroom by David A. Sousa & Carol Ann Tomlinson
In Differentiation and the Brain: How Neuroscience Supports the Learner-Friendly Classroom, authors David Sousa and Carol Ann Tomlinson examine the basic principles of differentiation in light of what the current research on educational neuroscience has revealed. This research pool offers information and insights that can help educators decide whether certain curricular, instructional, and assessment choices are likely to be more effective than others. |
Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement
by Stephanie Harvey & Anne Goudvis Strategies That Work has become an indispensable resource for teachers who want to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers. In this revised and expanded edition, Stephanie and Anne have added twenty completely new comprehension lessons, extending the scope of the book and exploring the central role that activating background knowledge plays in understanding. 
Teaching for Comprehending and Fluencey: Thinking, Talking and Writing About Reading K-8 by Irene C. Fountas & Gay Su Pinnell
Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, K-8 from Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell offers a complete picture of how to skillfully teach meaning making and fluency within any instructional context, it supports you with frameworks for high-quality instruction that describe appropriate expectations for comprehending, fluency, and vocabulary development. 
Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction (5th Edition) Words Their Way Series) by Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, Shane Templeton, and Francine Johnston
The developmentally driven Words Their Way ® instructional approach is a phenomenon in word study, providing a practical way to study words with students. The keys to this successful, research-based approach are to know your students’ literacy progress, organize for instruction, and implement word study. 
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond
In this book, Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsive instruction. |
