As a Reading teacher, I love learning and sharing what I learned to help others. My two favorite things to provide is PD on certain topics and ways to use book in the classroom.
10 of my favorite tools and resources!
First of all, I have to admit I have an addiction. My daughters call it insanity! I call it an amazing opportunity to learn. I love books. I constantly am buying books from yard sales, book stores, via amazon or scholastic I am always looking for the next great book. You see your classroom library is your biggest asset if you are a classroom teacher. Before I share my tools I have to share my classroom library and let you see what I curated.
My Top Ten Resources
1. Understanding Text and Readers by Jennifer Serravallo
A great tool to match readers to books and to understand what they should be able to do at a given level. It gives tips and ideas on how to help readers grow.
2. Reading Strategies by Jennifer Serravallo
A great book to use for small group instruction or intervention after teaching a whole group lesson. If students don't get a particular skill or strategy than used the table of contents and find a section to support your goal. You could use it as a main source of reading instruction as well. Their are 7 goals that you can plan out.
3. Reading conferences By Jennifer Serravallo
A great book to for new teachers or teachers needing a refresher the components of a reading conference and what happens in each one of them. It provides tips to set up conference, tools to use during conferences, ways to manage the paperwork and schedule conferences whether they are individual, partner or groups conferences.
4. The Book Whisper by Donalyn Miller
It helps reading teacher understand how t better get students engaged in reading and tools that will not only support them but challenge them as well.
5. Reading in the Wild by Donalyn Miller
If you read book Whisper you have to read this one, again she opens your eyes and gives you insight and have you question your practices.
6. Disruptive Thinking by Kylene Beers
It provides prompts and tips for you to ponder and analyze in order to improve your educational instruction, help students become engaged readers and plan for individual student growth.
7. Literacy Continuum - By Fountas and Pinnell
Another tool to help teachers analyze book levels, and what students need to be able to do to move to the next level. A great resource to become familiar with the characteristics of a reading level. It includes vocab, word study and grammar work.
8. Taking Action: A Handbook For RTI at Work- by Austin Buffum
A great book for educators to read and understand how to use RTI effectively as well as understand the different Tier levels and what needs to happen at each level, who is responsible for each level, and how to implement with ease.
A great book for educators to read and understand how to use RTI effectively as well as understand the different Tier levels and what needs to happen at each level, who is responsible for each level, and how to implement with ease.
9. Reading Text complexity Bands- A set of chart that provides skills and strategies that readers at various levels should be able to do with the text they are reading. You can easily doo a google search and find resources that repesent these bands.
10. How to Differentiate Instruction in Academically Diverse Classroom: by Carol Tomlinson
It covers the fundamentals of differentiation and provides additional information on how to go about differentiation.
Always keep up with current research related to your niche, in order to grow and stay current. These are just 10 of the many books that are stacked around my house. I love to read and learn.
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