Summer Reading List

The Writing Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Writers

Jennifer Serravallo

ISBN 9780325078229
2017
Grade Level: K - 8
Price $49.50 Your price: $44.55

The Writing Strategies Book made the New York Times Best Seller List by making it simpler to match students’ needs to high-quality instruction. Now, in The Writing Strategies Book, Jen Serravallo does the same, collecting 300 of the most effective strategies to share with writers, and grouping them beneath 10 crucial goals.

Joy Write

Ralph Fletcher

ISBN 9780325088808
2017
Grade Level: K - 8
Price $21.50 Your price: $19.35

“A writer needs wide latitude so she can bring all her intelligence to the task,” Ralph observes. “Assigning a particular format—a hamburger essay, for instance—would curtail this play, if not eliminate it entirely.” That’s why, instead of teacher-driven assignments, Joy Write shares the whys and the how of giving students time and autonomy for the playful, low-stakes writing that leads to surprising, high-level growth.

Nurturing Informed Thinking: Reading, Talking, & Writing Across Content-Area Sources

Sunday Cummins

ISBN 9780325092836
2018
Price $31.50 Your price: $28.35

In today’s world, the importance of teaching students to analyze different sources on a particular topic has never been greater. Students need to be able to connect ideas, weigh viewpoints, and balance differing perspectives. “We want students to ask questions and then actively seek out answers by reading, listening to, or viewing multiple sources —articles, books, videos, photos, infographics, and more,” literacy consultant and author Sunday Cummins explains. “We want them to think across those sources and be able to articulate for themselves as well as for others what they’ve learned—orally and in writing.”

Classroom Essentials: Getting Started with Beginning Writers

ISBN 9780325099187
2018
Price $27.50 Your price: $24.75

Each book in the Classroom Essentials series focuses on one essential, student-centered practice, giving you the information you need to get started trying it—or refining it—in your own classroom right away. Each book features a fresh, highly visual design to create an engaging, contemporary reading experience. Most books in the series also include robust online resources—including video that shows you what the practice looks like in today’s dynamic classrooms.

Teaching Writers to Reflect

Anne Whitney, Colleen McCracken, Deana Washell

ISBN 9780325076867
2019
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Price $26.00 Your price: $23.40

Even if your writing workshop hums with the sound of productive work most days, with time carved out for sharing and reflecting, how do you know whether your students are really learning from their writing experiences, or if they’re just going through the motions of writing? What if you could teach your students to reflect—in a powerful, deliberate way—throughout the writing process?