Book+Recommendations

What books do you recommend for 1st grade teachers? Share your favorites here!

Professional Resources:

__No More I'm Done- Fostering Independent Writers in the Primary Grades__ by Jennifer Jacobson - a great easy to go to book with great writing strategy lessons and lots of mentor text suggestions.

__Talk About Understanding__ by Ellin Oliver Keene - Ellin's newest thinking about asking kids to think deeply and how to foster those conversations

__Reading Power by Adrienne Ge__ar - Teaching Students to Think While They Read - a great teaching reading resource that explores the power to connect, question, visualize, infer, and transform while reading.

__Choice Words__ by Peter H. Johnston - a great little book that really makes you think about the language you use when you teach

__Catching Reader's Before They Fall - Supporting Readers Who Struggle, K-4__ - by Pat Johnson and Katie Keier - on my pile of books to read so maybe some one that has read it can write a quick summary?

__ When Readers Struggle: Teaching the Works __ by Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas A comprehensive volume filled with specific and effective teaching support for helping students in kindergarten though third grade overcome their reading and writing difficulties.

__ Already Ready __ by Katie Wood Ray and Matt Glover Nurturing writers in Preschool and Kindergarten

__ First Grade Writers __ by Stephanie Parsons Units of study to help children plan, organize, and structure their ideas

__ One to One __ by Lucy Calkins, Amanda Hartman, Zoe White The art of conferring with young writers

__ Teaching With Intention __ by Debbie Miller Defining beliefs, aligning practice, taking action

__ Teaching Literacy in First Grade __ by Diane Lapp, James Flood, Kelly Moore, and Maria Nichols Part of the series Tools for Teaching Literacy

__ Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics K-3 __ by John A. Van de Walle and LouAnn H. Lovin Provides practical guidance along with proven strategies for practicing teachers of kindergarten through third grade.

__ Spaces and Places __ by Debbie Diller Designing classrooms for literacy

__ Watch Katie and Matt…Sit Down and Teach Up eBook __ by Katie Wood Ray and Matt Glover Two master teachers review their thinking as they confer with beginning writers

__ Comprehension from the Ground Up __ by Sharon Taberski Simplified, sensible instruction for the K-3 reading workshop

__ Pathways to the Common Core __ by Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth, and Christopher Lehman Accelerating achievement