Annotated+Bibliography

Resources I find helpful in teaching students collaborative and metacognative processes.

Online Story Collections: [|4 to 40]. This is a HUGE site. We particularly like the collection of folk and fairytales. The quality is mixed somewhat, so you'll want to pick and choose, but this is a great site to go to when you need something quick or when you want to offer students choices.

[|The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales.] Another large collection. Students have heard of these before, but we find they are less familiar than we thought they would be with the stories. These are not the sanitized versions of picture books!

Teacher books: [|Mosaic of Thought]by Ellin Oliver Keane and Susan Zimmerman. One of the few books about actual classroom practice that reads like a novel. It has that "hard to put down" quality and has the power to inspire and re-invigorate!

[|Strategies that Work] by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis. This book details how to teach reading comprehension strategies, explicitly and clearly, to help students become thoughtful readers who understand and remember what they read.



There are also [|complete toolkits] (one for grades K-2, one for grade 3-6) that we really like.

Magazines to which I have classroom subscriptions: [|Muse](this links to a page with a comment by one of our students). [|Faces](be sure to check out the interactive samples link) [|Calliope](history) [|Dig](architecture) [|Odyssey](science) [|Cricket](fiction)

Finally, my bookshelf from Good Reads. This includes all my personal reading too, I can't keep up with two identities there! First is books I've read and reviewed, next is what I'm reading right now. media type="custom" key="3367056" media type="custom" key="3367064"