Resources

Book List

Publishers

• Heinemann from Portsmouth, New Hampshire
• National Council of Teachers of English
• National Writing Project
• Teachers College Press, Columbia University
• Write Source

Authors, Illustrators, Photographers

• A Community of Writers: A Workshop, Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff
• Andy Goldsworthy, A Collaboration with Nature, a stunning book of photography
• A Poem for Every Student, Creating community in a Public School Classroom, Sheryl Lain
• The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers, John Gardner
• The Art of Teaching Writing, Lucy McCormick Calkins
• The Artist’s Way, A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, Julia Cameron with Mark Bryan
• Awakening the Heart, Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School, Georgia Heard
• Because Writing Matters, Improving Student Writing in Our Schools, National Writing Project and Carl Nagin
• Bird by Bird, Anne LaMott
• Breaking the Rules, Edgar H. Schuster
• Cohesive Writing, Carol Jago
• Crafting Authentic Voice, Tom Romano
• Early Harvest, An Anthology of Student Writing, edited by Matthew Shenoda for the Rural Readers Project
• The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
• For the Good of the Earth and Sun, Teaching Poetry, Georgia Heard
• Freelance Writer’s Guide, edited by James Waller
• Fuel, poetry by Naomi Shihab Nye
• Getting the Knack, 20 Poetry Writing Exercises, Stephen Dunning and William Stafford
• I Am a Pencil, A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories, Sam Swope
• Image Grammar, Using Grammatical Structures to Teach Writing, Harry R. Noden
• It Was A Dark and Stormy Night, compiled by Scott Rice; Bride of Dark and Stormy; Son of It Was A Dark and Stormy Night; It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The Final Conflict
• Lessons That Change Writers, Nancie Atwell
• Lessons to Share on Teaching Grammar in Context, Constance Weaver
• The Multi Genre Research Paper, Camille A. Allen
• The Muses Among Us, Kim Stafford
• Nature Writing Handbook, John A. Murray
• Old Faithful, Edited by Christopher Edgar & Ron Padgett
• One Writer’s Beginnings, Eudora Welty
• Poems Please! Sharing Poetry with Children, David Booth and Bill Moore
• Quantum Teaching, Bobbi DePorter, Mark Reardon, and Sarah Singer-Nourie
• Reading, Writing, Rising Up, Linda Christensen
• Revision Toolbox, Teaching Techniques that Work, Georgia Heard
• Robert Bateman Natural Worlds, gorgeous paintings by Robert Bateman
• Rural Voices, Place Conscious Education and the Teaching of Writing, edited by Robert E. Brooke
• Sentence Composing for Middle School, Don Killgallon
• Spotlight on Comprehension, Building a Literacy of Thoughtfulness, Linda Hoyt with other leading experts
• Walking on Alligators, A Book of Meditations for Writers, Susan Shaughnessy
• What You Know by Heart, How to Develop Curriculum for Your Writing Workshop, Katie Wood Ray
• Words Under the Words, Naomi Shihab Nye
• The Writer’s Workout Book, Art Peterson
• Writers Express, Dave Kemper, Ruth Nathan and Patrick Sebranek
• The Write Track, A Handbook for Young Writers, Thinkers, and Learners, David Kemper, Ruth Nathan, and Patrick Sebranek
• The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
• Writing America, Classroom Literacy and Public Engagement, edited by Sarah Robbins and Mimi Dyer
• Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg
• Writing Out the Storm, Jessica Page Morrell
• Writing Toward Home, Georgia Heard
• Writing with Passion, Life Stories, Mulitple Genres, Tom Romano
• You Gotta Be the Book, Jeffery D. Wilhelm

Children’s Books That Are Rich With Ideas

• Cloudland, John Burmingham
• January Rides the Wind, beautiful poetry and paintings by Charlotte F. Otten
• Start Writing Adventure Stories, Penny King and Ruth Thomson
• Who Comes? beautiful poetry and paintings by Deborah Chandra