Resources for A Comprehensive Approach to Literacy

Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide by Ralph Fletcher & JoAnn Portalupi
Writing Workshop reveals what a potent tool the writing workshop can be for empowering young writers.

Writing Essentials: Raising Expectations and Results while Simplifying Teaching by Regie Routman
In Writing Essentials Regie Routman demystifies the process of teaching writing well and gives you the knowledge, research, precise instructional language, and confidence you need to succeed.

Reading Essentials: The Specifics You Need to Teach Reading Well by Regie Routman
Routman emphasizes the use of professional common sense and demonstrates how to maximize your time, making the most of every teachable moment. Practical, philosophical, and political, Reading Essentials gets to the heart of what excellent reading instruction is all about—and puts the fun back into your teaching.

Genre Study: Teaching with Fiction and Nonfiction Books by Irene C. Fountas & Gay Su Pinnell
In exploring Genre Study, Fountas & Pinnell advocate teaching and learning in which students are actively engaged in developing genre understandings and applying their thinking to any genre. It is through using genre understandings that your students think, talk, and read texts with deeper understanding, and write effectively.

Units of Study by Lucy Calkins et al.
The Calkins series for teaching reading and teaching writing from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project is written for students tapping into their powers as readers as well as writers.

Guided Reading, Second Edition: Responsive Teaching Across the Grades by Irene C. Fountas & Gay Su Pinnell
Much has been written on the topic of guided reading over the last twenty years, but no other leaders in literacy education have championed the topic with such depth and breadth as Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. In the highly anticipated second edition of Guided Reading, Fountas and Pinnell remind you of guided reading's critical value within a comprehensive literacy system, and the reflective, responsive teaching required to realize its full potential.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Supporting English Learners in the Reading Workshop by Lindsay Moses
Lindsey Moses draws on her years of experience in classrooms to provide answers to teachers' most common questions about getting started in a linguistically diverse workshop setting. She offers a wealth of practical ideas for supporting English learners through each component of the reading workshop.

Growing Readers: Units of Study in the Primary Classroom by Kathy Collins
In Growing Readers, Kathy Collins helps teachers plan for independent reading workshops in their own classrooms. She describes the structure of the independent reading workshop and other components of a literacy program that work together to ensure young students grow into strong, well-rounded readers.

About the Authors: Writing Workshop with Our Youngest Writers by Katie Wood Ray with Lisa B. Cleaveland
Katie Wood Ray explains step by step how to set up and maintain a primary writing workshop, detailing eleven units of study that cover idea generation, text structures, different genres, and illustrations that work with text.

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.

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.

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.