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Allen, Janet. (1999). Words, words, words.

Angelillo, Janet (2002). A fresh approach to teaching punctuation.

Anzaldúa, G. (1999). Borderlands/La frontera: The new Mestiza.

Auster, Paul. (2001). I thought my father was god.

Avery, Carol. (2002). And with a light touch.

Baines, Lawrence & Kunkel, Anthony. (2003). Teaching adolescents to write: The unsubtle art of naked teaching.

Bauman, Amy & Peterson, Art (eds.) (2002).  Breakthroughs: Classroom discoveries about teaching writing. 

Beers, Kylene & Samuels, Barbara G. (eds.) (1998). Into focus: Understanding and creating middle school readers.

Benedict, Susan & Carlisle, Lenore (eds.) (1992). Beyond words: Picture books for older readers and writers.

Berghoff, B. (2000). Beyond reading and writing.

Boran, S. & Comber, B.  (2001). Critiquing whole language and classroom inquiry.

Brooke, Robert E. (ed.) (2003). Rural voices: Place-conscious education and the teaching of writing.

Buehl, Doug. (2001). Classroom strategies for interactive learning.

Burke, Jim. (2003). The English teacher's companion.

Burkhardt, Ross M. (2003). Writing for real: Strategies for engaging adolescent writers.

Calkins, Lucy McCormick. (1994). The art of teaching writing.

Carey, Michael A. (1989). Poetry starting from scratch: How to teach and write poetry.

Chapman, Carolyn & King, Rita. (2003). Differentiated instructional strategies for writing in the content areas.

Christensen, L. (2000). Reading, writing, and rising up: Teaching about social justice and the power of the written word.

Codell, Esme Raji. (1999). Educating Esme: Diary of a teacher's first year.

Colby, Vineta (ed). (1991). World authors: 1980-1985.

Colby, Vineta (ed). (1995). World authors: 1985-1990.

Collom, Jack & Noethe, Sheryl. (2000). Poetry everywhere.

Compton-Lilly, C. (2004). Confronting racism, poverty, and power: Classroom strategies to change the world.

Cortés, C. (2002). The making and remaking of a multiculturalist.

Culham, Ruth. (2003). 6+1 traits of writing: The complete guide grades 3 and up.

Cunningham, Patricia M. & Allington, Richard L. (2003). Classrooms that work: They can all read and write.

Daniels, H., Bizar, M., & Zemelman, S. (2001). Rethinking high school: Best practice in teaching, learning, and leadership.

Dixon, Deborah. (1993). Writing your heritage: A sequence of thinking, reading, and writing assignments

Dunning, Stephen & Stafford, William. (1992). Getting the knack: 20 poetry writing exercises.

Edgar, Christopher & Padgett, Ron (eds.). (1995). Old faithful.

Elbow, Peter. (1998). Writing without teachers.

Fishman, S. & McCarthy, L.  (2000). Unplayed tapes.

Fletcher, Ralph. (1991). Walking trees: Portraits of teachers and children in the culture of schools.

Fletcher, Ralph & Portalupi, JoAnn. (1998). Craft lessons: Teaching writing k-8.

Fletcher, Ralph & Portalupi, JoAnn. (2001). Writing workshop: The essential guide.

Flores, Angel. (1992). Spanish American authors: the twentieth century.

Fountas, Irene C. & Pinell, Gay Su.; (1996). Guided reading: Good first teaching for all teaching

Frank, Marjorie. (1995). If you're trying to teach kids how to write, you’ve gotta have this book.

Fulwiler, Toby (ed.). (1987). The journal book.

Gardner, Howard. (1997). Extraordinary minds.

Gay, G. (2000).  Culturally responsive teaching: Theory, research, and practice.

Goodman, Y.  (2003). Valuing language study.

Graves, Donald H. (2001). The energy to teach.

Graves, Donald H. (2003). Writing: Teachers & children at work

Haake, K. (2000). What our speech disrupts.

Heard, Georgia (1989). For the good of the earth and sun: Teaching poetry.

Heath, S. Brice & Mangiola, L. (1991). Children of promise: Literate activity in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms.

hooks, b. (1993). Feminism is for everybody.

hooks, b. (1993). Teaching community: A pedagogy of hope.

hooks, b. (1994). Teaching to transgress.

Karr-Morse, Robin & Wiley, Meredith S. (1997). Ghosts from the nursery: Tracing the roots of violence.

Keene, E. Oliver & Zimmermann, S. (1997). Mosaic of thought: Teaching comprehension in a reader's workshop.

Kenner Glover, M. (1997). Making school by hand.

King, S. (2000).  On writing: A memoir of the craft.

Koch, Kenneth. (1990). Rose, where did you get that red? Teaching great poetry to children.

Kohl, Herbert. (1998). The discipline of hope: Learning from a lifetime of teaching.

Kozol, Jonathan. (2000). Ordinary resurrections: Children in the years of hope.

Kozol, Jonathan. (1995). Amazing grace: The lives of children and the conscience of a nation.

Lain, Sheryl.  (1998). A poem for every student: Creating community in a public school classroom.

Lee, A.  (2000). Composing critical pedagogies.

Lee, C. & Smagorinsky, P. (2000). Vygotskyan perspectives on literacy research.

Lieberman, A. & Wood, D.  (2003). Inside the national writing project: Connecting network learning and classroom teaching. 

Lamott, Anne. (1994). Bird by bird.

MacLean, Marion S. & Mohr, Marian M.  (1999). Teacher-researchers at work.

Macrorie, Ken. (1984). Writing to be read.

Marks, Claude. (1991). World artists: 1980-1990

Marks, Claude. (1984). World artists: 1950-1980.

Marshall, J., Smagorinsky, P. & Smith, M.  (1994). The language of interpretation.

Martino, W. & Mellor, B. (2000). Gendered fictions.

Michaels, Judith Rowe. (2001).  Dancing with words: Helping students love language through authentic vocabulary instruction

Moffet, James. (1994). The universal schoolhouse: Spiritual awakening through education

Mohr, Marian M. et. al.  (2004). Teacher research for better schools.

Moline, Steve. (1995). I see what you mean: Children at work with visual information. 

Muschla, Gary R. (1993). Writing workshop survival kit.

Nagin, Carl. (2003). Because writing matters: Improving student writing in our schools.

NCTE Standards Consensus Series.  (1996). Motivating writing in middle school.

Owocki, Gretchen. (2001). Make way for literacy!

Padgett, Ron. (ed). (2000). The teachers and writers handbook of poetic forms

Palmer, Parker J. (1998). The courage to teach

Peterson, Art. (1996). The writer’s workout book: 113 stretches toward better prose.

Pinnel, Gay Su & Fountas, I.  (1998). Word matters: Teaching phonics and spelling in the reading/writing classroom

Portalupi, Joann & Fletcher, Ralph.  (2001). Nonfiction craft lessons: Teaching information.

Probst, Robert E. (1988). Response and analysis: Teaching literature in junior and senior high school.

Ray, Katie Wood. (2002). What you know by heart: How to develop curriculum for your writing workshop. 

Rief, Linda. (1992). Seeking diversity: Language arts with adolescents.

Robb, Laura. (2002). Reader’s handbook: A student guide for reading and learning.

Roe Michaels, J.  (1999). Risking intensity.

Root Jr., R. & Steinberg, M. (1996). Those who do, can.

Rose, Mike. (1995). Possible lives.

Shor, I. (1992).  Empowering education: Critical teaching for social change.

Shor, I. (1997).  When students have power: Negotiating authority in a critical pedagogy.

Smitherman, G. & Villanueva, V.  (2003). Language diversity in the classroom.

Spandel, Vicki. (2001). Books, lessons, ideas for teaching the six traits.

Stead, Tony. (2002). Is that a fact? Teaching nonfiction writing K-3

Taylor, D.  (1998). Beginning to read and the spin doctors of science.

Taylor, D. (1997).  Many families, many literacies.

Tchudi, Stephen (ed). (1997). Alternatives to grading student writing

Tchudi, Susan & Tchudi, Stephen.  (1999). The English language arts handbook.

Trelease, Jim. (2001). The read-aloud handbook.

Urrea, L. (1993).  Across the wire: Life and hard times on the Mexican border.

Urrea, L. (2004).  The devil’s highway: A true story.

Valencia, R. (1997).  The evolution of deficit thinking: Educational thought and practice.

Vasquez, V. et al. (2004).  Literacy as social practice.

Wasson, Tyler (ed.) (1987). Nobel prize winners.

Willis, Meredith Sue. (1993). Deep revision: A guide for teachers, students, and other writers

Wooldridge, Susan Goldsmith. (1996). Poemcrazy: Freeing your life with words.