Professional Book Project
Professional Book List
Following is the list of professional books we had to choose from.  I thought this would be a good resource for any other teachers who drop by to visit:

Allen, Janet. 
Yellow Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading 4 - 12.  Stenhouse, 2000.

Alvermann, Donna E., Jennifer S. Moon, and Margaret C. Hagood. 
Popular Culture in the Classroom: Teaching and Researching Critical Media Literacy.  International Reading Association, 1999.

Atwell, Nancy. 
In the Middle: New Understandings about Writing, Reading, and Learning.  Boynton/Cook Publishers Inc., 1998.

Beck, Isabel L., Margaret G. McKeown, Rebecca L. Hamilton, and Linda Kucan. 
Questioning the Author: An Approach for Enhancing Student Engagement with Text.  International Reading Association, 1997.
Beers, Kylene.  When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6 - 12.  Heinemann, 2003.

Berger, Allen, and Elizabeth A. Shafran. 
Teens for Literacy: Promoting Reading and Writing in Schools and Communities.  International Reading Association, 2002.

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

Burke, Jim. 
Illuminating Texts: How to Teach Students to Read the World.  Heinemann, 2001.

Day, F.A. 
Latina and Latino Voices in Literature for Children and Teenagers.  Heinemann, 1997.

Elliott, Joan B. & Dupuis, Mary M. 
Young Adult Literature in the Classroom: Reading It, Teaching It, Loving It.  International Reading Association, 2002.

Harris, J., and J. Rosen. 
Media Journal: Reading and Writing about Popular Culture.  Massachusetts: Allyn & Bacon, 1995.

Harvey, Stephanie. 
Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3 - 8.  Stenhouse, 1998.

Kaywell, J. F. 
Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics, Volume 1.  Christopher-Gordon, 1993.

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Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the Classics, Volume 2.  Christopher-Gordon, 1995.

Moje, Elizabeth Birr. 
All the Stories That We Have: Adolescents' Insights about Literacy and Learning in Secondary Schools.  International Reading Association, 2000.

Mueller, Pamela N. 
Lifers: Learning from At-Risk Adolescent Readers.  Heinemann, 2001.

Pennac, Daniel. 
Better Than Life.  Stenhouse, 1999.
Pirie, Bruce.  Teenage Boys and High School English.  Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 2002.

Reeves, Anne R. 
Adolescents Talk about Reading: Exploring Resistance to and Engagement with Text.  International Reading Association, 2004.

Richardson, Judy S. 
Read It Aloud!  Using Literature in the Secondary Content Classroom.  International Reading Association, 2000.

Schoenbach, Ruth, Cynthia Greenleaf, Christine Cziko, and Lori Hurwitz. 
Reading for Understanding: A Guide to Improving Reading in Middle School and High School Classrooms.  Jossey-Bass, 1999.

Simmons, John S., and Lawrence Baines. 
Language Study in Middle School, High School, and Beyond.  International Reading Association, 1998.

Smith, Michael, and Jeffrey Wilhelm. 
Reading Don't Fix No Chevys: Literacy in the Lives of Young Men.  Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 2002.

Spandel, Vickie. 
Books, Lessons, Ideas for Teaching the Six Traits - Middle and High School.  Great Source Education Group, 2001.

Spandel, V., and R. J. Stiggins. 
Creating Writers: Linking Writing Assessment and Instruction (2nd ed.).  Longman, 1997.

Tovani, Cris. 
I Read It, but I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers.  Stenhouse, 2000.

Wilhelm, Jeffrey D. 
Action Strategies for Deepening Comprehension: Role Plays, Text-Structure Tableaux, Talking Statues, and Other Enactment Techniques that Engage Students with Text.  Scholastic, 2002.

Wood, Karen D., and Janis M. Harmon. 
Strategies for Integrating Reading & Writing in Middle and High School Classrooms.  International Reading Association, 2001.
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