Here is my edu-book library. I am putting two stars next to what I believe to be especially important and essential reads and one star next to very good reads. This does not mean the others are bad :) Some books are in more than one category because they belong in more than one category.
Teaching Reading / Reading Workshop
Angelillo, Writing About Reading
**Atwell, In the Middle
*Beers, When Kids Can't Read
Buckner, Notebook Connections
Daniels & Steineke, Mini-Lessons for Literature Circles
Day (Jeni Pollack and others), Moving Forward with Literature Circles
Gallagher, Reading Reasons
**Gallagher, Readicide
Mclaughlin & DeVooged, Critical Literacy
Robb, Teaching Reading in Middle School
Smith & Wilhelm, Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements
Wilhelm, You Gotta BE the Book
Wilhelm, Improving Comprehension With Think-Aloud Strategies
Wilhelm, Reading Is Seeing
*Wilhelm, Action Strategies to Improve Comprhension
Teaching Writing / Writing Workshop
*Anderson (Carl), Assessing Writers
Angelillo, Writing About Reading
**Atwell, In the Middle
*Bomer & Bomer, For A Better World
Buckner, Notebook Know-How
Cullham, 6+1 Traits of Writing, Grades 3 and Up
Gallagher, Teaching Adolescent Writers
Lattimer, Thinking Through Genre
*Murray, A Writer Teaches Writing
Inquiry and Curriculum Design
*Wilhelm, Engaging Readers and Writers With Inquiry
*Marzano, The Art and Science of Teaching
Tomlinson & McTighe, Integrating Differentiation + Understanding by Design
Burke, What's the Big Idea?
*Wiggins & McTighe, Understanding by Design (2nd Ed.)
Jackson, Never Work Harder Than Your Students
Teaching Vocabulary
*Blachowicz & Fisher, Teaching Vocabulary in All Classrooms
*The Vocabulary Enriched Classroom
Allen, Inside Words
Marzano, Building Academic Vocabulary
Educational Theory, Ideas, and Research
Langer, Envisioning Literature: Literary Understanding and Literature Instruction
Wilhelm, You Gotta BE the Book
**Gallagher, Readicide
*Marzano, The Art and Science of Teaching
Egan, An Imaginative Approach to Teaching
Jensen, Teaching With the Brain in Mind
Teaching Social Studies and History
*Loewen, Teaching What Really Happened
Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me
*Teachers Curriculum Institute, History Alive!
Differentiation, Intervention, and Special Education
**Wormeli, Fair Isn't Always Equal
Wormeli, Differentiation
Tomlinson & McTighe, Integrating Differentiation + Understanding by Design
Howard, RTI From All Sides
**Levine, A Mind At A Time
Assessment
**Wormeli, Fair Isn't Always Equal
*Marzano, Classroom Assessment and Grading That Works
*Marzano, The Art and Science of Teaching
Jackson, Never Work Harder Than Your Students
"Classroom Management"
**Kohn, Beyond Discipline
Jackson, Never Work Harder Than Your Students
*Marzano, The Art and Science of Teaching
Technology
Richardson, Blogs, Wikis, Podcats, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms
Adolescence and Social Development
Lieber, Partners In Learning
Lieber & Poliner, The Advisory Guide
Kriedler, Conflict Resolution in the Middle School
