Mrs. McGowan's Class 

Teacher's
 Reading and Writing Bookshelf

Here's a list of books from my home book shelf.  These are the sources I reach for when I'm struggling to make a lesson better or solve a teaching problem related to reading or writing. The links will take you to amazon.com or International Reading Association, not to suggest you buy the book there, but just to give further information.

* Reading             * Writing

1READING

Growing Readers: Units of Study in the Primary Classroom
by Kathy Collins

Reading With Meaning :Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades
 by Debbie Miller

Guided Reading  by Irene C. Fountas & Gay Su Pinnell

Mosaic of Thought:  Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop
 by Susan Zimmermann & Ellin Oliver Keene

7 Keys to Comprehension: How to help your kids read it and get it!
by Susan Zimmerman and Chryse Hutchins

Reading Power - Teaching Students to Think While They Read by Adrienne Gear

Just-Right Comprehension Mini-Lessons Grade 1  by Cheryl Sigmon

Building Fluency:  Lessons and Strategies for Reading Success by Wiley Blevins

Teaching for Comprehension in Reading Grades K-2  by Gay Su Pinnell & Patricia L. Scharer

Choice Words: How our words affect children's learning by Peter Johnston

Classrooms That Work by Patricia Cunningham & Richard Allington

Differentiating for the Young Child: Teaching Strategies Across the Content Areas (K-3) by Joan Franklin Smutny and S.E. von Fremd

Good-Bye Round Robin:  25 Effective Oral Reading Strategies
by Michael Opitz & Timothy V. Rasinski

Guided Reading:  Making It Work by Mary Browning Schulman &  Carleen DaCruz Payne

How To Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms
by Carol Ann Tomlinson

Invitations:  Changing As Teachers and Learners K-12 by Regie Routman

Literacy Work Stations:  Making Centers Work  by Debbie Diller

Month-By-Month Phonics by Patricia Cunningham & Dorothy Hall

On Their Way:  Celebrating Second Graders as They Read and Write
 by Jane Fraser & Donna Skolnick

Revisit, Reflect, Retell - Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension
by Linda Hoyt

Running Records for Classroom Teachers by Marie Clay

Small-Group Reading Instruction: A Differentiated Teaching Model for Beginning and Struggling Readers  by Beverly Tynner

Strategies That Work:  Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding
by Stephanie Harvey & Anne Gouvdvis

Taking Running Records by Mary Shea

The Daily 5- Fostering Literacy Independence in the Elementary Grades
by Gail Boushey & Joan Moser

The Struggling Reader - Interventions that Work
by J. David Cooper, David Chard, Nancy Kiger

The Teacher's Guide to the Four Blocks by Patricia Cunningham, Dorothy Hall, and Cheryl Sigmon

True Stories From Four-Blocks Classrooms edited by Patricia Cunningham and Dorothy Hall

What are the Other Kids Doing?  ...while you teach small groups  by Donna Marriott

Word Journeys:  Assessment-Guided Phonics, Spelling, and Vocabulary Instruction  by Kathy Ganske

Word Matters:  Teaching Phonics and Spelling in the Reading/Writing Classroom by Gay Su Pinnell & Irene C. Fountas

2 WRITING

First Grade Writers: Units of Study to Help Children Plan, Organize, and Structure Their Ideas  by Stephanie Parsons

Units of Study for Primary Writing:  A Year-long Curriculum K-2
by Lucy Calkins and others

Marvelous Minilessons for Teaching Beginning Writing, K-3
by Lori Jamison Rog

Mentor Texts by Lynn Dorfman & Rose Cappelli

6 + 1 Traits of Writing for the Primary Grades  by Ruth Culham

Using Picture Books to Teach Writing with the Traits  by Ruth Culham

Guided Writing: Practical Lessons, Powerful Results  by Lori D. Oczkus

About the Authors: Writing Workshop with Our Youngest Writers
 by Lisa Cleveland and Katie Wood Ray

Wondrous Words: Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom
by Katie Wood Ray

...And With a Light Touch - Learning about Reading, Writing, and Teaching with First Graders by Carol Avery