Teacher Resources

Reading Resources

Dr. Carol Campbell, Associate Professor at Southwestern Adventist University, and a former member of the Reading Steering Committee has provided a list of several reading resources for teachers to provide assistance in preparing to adopt Pathways. The committee wishes to express our thanks to Dr. Campbell for providing this list of resources. These resources are categorized by subject.

Guided Reading/Reading Workshop

Patricia M. Cunningham, Dorothy P. Hall, and Cheryl M. Sigmon, The Teacher’s Guide to the Four Blocks: A Multimethod, Multilevel Framework for Grades1-3 (Greensboro, NC: Carson-Dellosa, 1999).

Patricia M. Cunningham, Dorothy P. Hall, and James W. Cunningham, Guided Reading the Four-Blocks Way (Greensboro, NC: Carson-Dellosa, 2000).

Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1996).

The Wright Group, Guided Reading: A Practical Approach for Teachers (Bothell, WA: The Wright Group, 1995).

Cheryl M. Sigmon, Modifying the Four Blocks for Upper Grades (Greensboro, NC: Carson-Dellosa, 2001).

Karen Bauer and Rosa Drew, Alternatives to Worksheets (Cypress, CA: Creative Teaching Press, 1992).

Catherine Hiatt, Doug Wolven, Gwen Botka, and Jennifer Richmond, More Alternatives to Worksheets (Cypress, CA: Creative Teaching Press, 1994).

Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, Matching Books to Readers: Using Leveled Books in Guided Reading, K-3 (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1999).

Comprehension

D. Ray Reutzel and Robert B. Cooter, Jr., Teaching Children to Read: Putting the Pieces Together, Fourth Edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2004).

Cynthia Fischer, “Revisiting the Reader’s Rudder: A Comprehension Strategy,” Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 47 (November 2003), pp. 248-256.

Ellin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimermann, Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader’s Workshop (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1997).

Michael F. Opitz and Roger G. Eldridge, Jr., “Remembering Comprehension: Delving into the Mysteries of Teaching Reading Comprehension,” The Reading Teacher 57 (May 2004), p. 272.

Fischer. Linda Kucan and Isabel L. Beck, “Thinking Aloud and Reading Comprehension Research: Inquiry, Instruction, and Social Interaction,” Review of Educational Research 67 (Fall 1997), pp. 271-292.

Sharon Grimes, “The Search for Meaning: How You Can Boost Kids’ Reading Comprehension,” School Library Journal 50 (May 2004), pp. 48-52.

Vocabulary

Arthur W. Heilman, Timothy R. Blair, and William H. Rupley, Principles and Practices of Teaching Reading, Tenth Edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall, 2002).

Dorothy Rubin, Diagnosis and Correction in Reading Instruction, Fourth Edition (Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 2002).

Pamela J. Farris, Carol J. Fuhler, and Maria P. Walther, Teaching Reading: A Balanced Approach for Today’sClassrooms (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004).

Robert B. Ruddell, Teaching Children to Read and Write: Becoming an Effective Literacy Teacher, Third Edition (Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 2002).

Rhonda Holt Atkinson and Debbie Guice Longman, Vocabulary for College and Beyond (St. Paul, MN: West, 1990).

Thomas G. Gunning, Creating Literacy Instruction for All Children, Third Edition (Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 2000).

Betty D. Roe, Sandy H. Smith, and Paul C. Burns, Teaching Reading in Today’s Elementary Schools, Ninth Edition (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2005).

Gail E. Tompkins, Literacy for the Twenty-first Century: A Balanced Approach (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1997).

Ruth H. Yopp and Hallie K. Yopp. “Time with Text,” The Reading Teacher 57 (November 2003), p. 285.

Frank B. May, Teaching Reading Creatively: Reading and Writing as Communication, Seventh Edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2006).

Camille Blachowicz and Peter Fisher, Teaching Vocabulary in All Classrooms, Second Edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2002).

Donald J. Leu, Jr. and Charles K. Kinzer, Effective Literacy Instruction, K-8, Fourth Edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999).

Word Study/Phonics

Ashley and Suzanne Bishop, Teaching Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, and Word Recognition (Westminster, CA: Teacher Created Materials, 1996).

Frank Smith, Understanding Reading: A Psycholinguistic Analysis of Reading and Learning to Read, Fifth Edition (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994).

Lori Jamison Rog, Early Literacy Instruction in Kindergarten (Newark, DE: International Reading Association, 2001).

Dixie Lee Spiegel, “Special Initiatives for Special Needs” in The Administration and Supervision of Reading Programs, Second Edition by Shelley B. Wepner, Joan T. Feeley, and Dorothy S. Strickland, eds. (Newark, DE: International Reading Association, 1995).

Wiley Blevins, Phonics from A to Z: A Practical Guide (New York, NY: Scholastic, 1998).

Hallie Kay Yopp and Ruth Helen Yopp, “Supporting Phonemic Awareness Development in the Classroom,” The Reading Teacher 54 (October 2000).

Susan B. Neuman, Carol Copple, and Sue Bredekamp, Learning to Read and Write: DevelopmentallyAppropriate Practices for Young Children (Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2000).

Violet B. Robinson, Gretchen Ross, and Harriet C. Neal, Emergent Literacy in Kindergarten: A Reviewof the Research and Related Suggested Activities and Learning Strategies (San Mateo, CA: California Kindergarten Association, 2000).

Lita Ericson and Moira Fraser Juliebo, The Phonological Awareness Handbook for Kindergarten and Primary Teachers (Newark, DE: International Reading Association, 1998).

Dorothy P. Hall, Connie Prevatte, and Patricia M. Cunningham, “Eliminating Ability Grouping and Reducing Failure in the Primary Grades” in No QuickFix: Rethinking Literacy Programs in America’s Elementary Schools by Richard L. Allington and Sean A. Walmsley eds. (Newark, DE: International Reading Association, 1995).

Lesley Mandel Morrow and Diane H. Tracey, “Strategies Used for Phonics Instruction in Early Childhood Classrooms,” The Reading Teacher 50 (May 1997).

Kerry Hempenstall, “Some Issues in Phonics Instruction: Implicit and Explicit Phonics Instruction;” accessed April 15, 2005, at http://www.educationnews.org/some-issues-in-phonics-instructi.htm.

Kerry Hempenstall, “The Relationship between Phonics and Phonemic Awareness;” accessed April 15, 2005, at http://www.educationnews.org/relationship-between-phonics-and.htm.

Janiel Wagstaff, Phonics That Work! New Strategies for the Reading/Writing Classroom (New York, NY: Scholastic, 1994).

Patricia M. Cunningham and Dorothy P. Hall, Making Words: Multilevel, Hands-On, Developmentally Appropriate Spelling and Phonics Activities (Torrance, CA: Good Apple, 1994).

Gay Su Pinnell and Irene C. Fountas, Word Matters: Teaching Phonics and Spelling in the Reading/Writing Classroom (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998).

Patricia M. Cunningham and Dorothy P. Hall, Making Words: Multilevel, Hands-On, Developmentally Appropriate Spelling and Phonics Activities (Torrance, CA: Good Apple, 1994).

Patricia H. Cunningham and Dorothy P. Hall, Making Big Words: Multilevel, Hands-On Spelling and Phonics Activities (Torrance, CA: Good Apple, 1994).

Patricia M. Cunningham, Systematic Sequential Phonics They Use: For Beginning Readers of All Ages (Greensboro, NC: Carson-Dellosa, 2000).

Read Alouds

Lucy Calkins, The Art of Teaching Reading (New York: Addison-Wesley, 2001).

James S. Jacobs and Michael O. Tunnell, Children’s Literature, Briefly, Third Edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2004).

Ellin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmerman, Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader’s Workshop (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1997).

Carol Avery, . . . And With a Light Touch, Second Edition (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002).

Mary Lee Hahn, Reconsidering Read-Aloud (Portland, ME: Stenhouse, 2002).

Regie Routman, Reading Essentials: The Specifics You Need to Teach Reading Well (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003).

Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook, Fifth Edition (New York, NY: Penguin, 2001).

Mem Fox, Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever (San Diego, CA: Harcourt, 2001).

Writing Workshop

PBS, “Misunderstood Minds: Basics of Writing,” accessed October 13, 2005 at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/writingbasics.html.

Nancie Atwell, In the Middle: New Understandings about Writing, Reading, and Learning, Second Edition (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998).

Lucy McCormick Calkins, The Art of Teaching Writing, Second Edition (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994).

Gail E. Tompkins, Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product, Fourth Edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2004).

Donald Graves, A Fresh Look at Writing (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994).

Jack Wilde, A Door Opens: Writing in Fifth Grade (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1993).

Donald M. Murray, Write to Learn, Third Edition (Ft. Worth, TX: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1990).

Jane Hansen, When Writers Read, Second Edition (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001).

Carolyn L. Piazza, Journeys: The Teaching of Writing in Elementary Classrooms (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2003).

Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook (New York: Penguin, 1982).

Janice Hartwick Dressel, “The Effects of Listening to and Discussing Different Qualities of Children’s Literature on the Narrative Writing of Fifth Graders,” Research in the Teaching of English 24 (December 1990), pp. 397-414.

Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi, Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001).

Tracie Heskett, Using the Six Trait Writing Model (Westminster, CA: Teacher Created Materials, 2001).

Reading in the Content Areas

“Content Area Reading;” accessed April 25, 2005, at http://www.handheldeducation.com/readingscene/abc/contentareas.html.

Harvey Daniels and Steven Zemelman, Subjects Matter: Every Teacher’s Guide to Content-Area Reading (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2004).

“Reading in the Content Areas: Strategies for Success;” accessed November 16, 2005, at http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/educationupclose.phtml/12.

Boys and Reading

“Pay Closer Attention: Boys Are Struggling Academically,” USA Today (December 3, 2004 ), p. 12A.

William G. Brozo, To Be a Boy, To Be a Reader: Engaging Teen and Preteen Boys in Active Literacy (Newark, DE: International Reading Association, 2002).

Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook, Fifth Edition (New York: Penguin, 2001).

William G. Brozo, Patricia Walter, and Teri Placker, “'I Know the Difference between a Real Man and a TV Man’: A Critical Exploration of Violence and Masculinity through Literature in a Junior High School in the ‘Hood,” Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 45 (March 2002), p. 531.

Eve Bearne and Molly Warrington, “Raising Boys’ Achievement,” Literacy Today 35 (June 2003), p. 18.

Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, “Reading Don’t Fix No Chevys”: Literacy in the Lives of Young Men (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002).

Thomas Newkirk, Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002).

Bruce Pirie, Teenage Boys and High School English (Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2002).

ESL Learners and Struggling Readers

Richard T. Vacca and Jo Anne L. Vacca, Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum, Seventh Edition (Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2002).

D. Ray Reutzel and Robert B. Cooter, Jr., The Essentials of Teaching Children to Read: What EveryTeacher Needs to Know (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2005).

Bonita Grossen, “30 Years of Research: What We Now Know about How Children Learn to Read;” accessed April 28, 2005 at http://daisy.ym.edu.tw/~jrlee/30years.html.

Kylene Beers, When Kids Can’t Read: What Teachers Can Do (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003).

G. Reid Lyon, “Overview of Reading and Literacy Initiatives;” accessed April 28, 2005 at http://www.readbygrade3.com/readbygrade3co/lyon.htm.

Kimberly Lenters, “No Half Measures: Reading Instruction for Young Second-language Learners,” The Reading Teacher 58 (December 2004/January 2005), p. 328.

Suzanne F. Peregoy and Owen F. Boyle, Reading , Writing, and Learning in ESL: A Resource Book for K-12 Teachers, Fourth Edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2005).

Joan P. Gipe, Multiple Paths to Literacy: Classroom Techniques for Struggling Readers, Fifth Edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2002).

Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, “Phonemic Awareness for Reading & Spelling & Speech;” accessed on October 4, 2000 from http://www.lblp.com/phonemicawareness.html.

Betty D. Roe, Sandy Smith, and Paul C. Burns, Teaching Reading in Today’s Elementary Schools, Ninth Edition (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2005).

Bright Solutions for Dyslexia, “Teaching Methods That Work;” accessed on September 30, 1999 from http://www.dys-add.com/teach.html.

Patricia M. Cunningham and Dorothy P. Hall, Making Words: Multilevel, Hands-On, Developmentally Appropriate Spelling and Phonics Activities (Torrance, CA: Good Apple, 1994).

Marilyn Jager Adams, Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990).

Melinda Smith, Barbara J. Walker, and David Yellin. “From Phonological Awareness to Fluency in Each Lesson,” The Reading Teacher 58 (November 2004), p. 302.

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, “National Reading Panel Reports Combination of Teaching Phonics, Word Sounds, Giving Feedback on Oral Reading Most Effective Way to Teach Reading;” accessed on April 17, 2005 from http://www.nichd.nih.gov/new/releases/nrp.cfm.

Lori Jamison Rog and Paul Kropp, “Hooking Struggling Readers: Using Books They Can and Want to Read;” accessed on April 18, 2005 from http://www.hip-books.com/hsr.html.

James L. Shanker and Eldon E. Ekwall, Locating and Correcting Reading Difficulties, Eighth Edition (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2003).

Rigby, “What Do Good Readers Do?” accessed on April 4, 2005 from http://www.hip-books.com/hsr.html.

Ann M. Duffy-Hester, “Teaching Struggling Readers in Elementary School Classrooms: A Review of Classroom Reading Programs and Principles for Instruction, The Reading Teacher 52 (February 1999), p. 121.

Home/School Connections

Regie Routman, Conversations: Strategies for Teaching, Learning, and Evaluating (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2000).

Literature Circles

Rebel Williams, Integrated Learning Workshops: Launching Literature Circles (Bothell, WA: The Wright Group, 1993).

Patsy Carey, Cynthia Holzschuher, and Susan Kilpatrick, Activities for Any Literature Unit: Primary (Huntington Beach, CA: Teacher Created Materials, 1995).

Patsy Carey, Cynthia Holzschuher, Susan Kilpatrick, and John and Patty Carratello, Activities for Any Literature Unit: Intermediate (Huntington Beach, CA: Teacher Created Materials, 1996).

Harvey Daniels, Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs & Reading Groups, Second Edition (Portland, ME: Stenhouse, 2002).