Read About Writing

You know, one thing teachers love to know is what their colleagues are reading.  Teachers' book collections are nearly sacred...so much learning, dreaming, and growing happens within their pages.  Professional books give us a chance to step into someone else's world, try on the knowledge the author has gained from experience, and then figure out how to make it all work in our own unique classroom situations.  Below are some of my favorite titles.  Please share yours too! 

• The Art of Teaching Writing by Lucy Calkins
• Living Between the Lines by Lucy Calkins & Shelley Harwayne
• What You Know By Heart by Katie Wood Ray
• Wondrous Words by Katie Wood Ray
• In Pictures and In Words: Teaching the Qualities of Good Writing Through Illustration Study by Katie Wood Ray
• Study Driven by Katie Wood Ray
• The Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (And They're All Hard Parts) by Katie Wood Ray & Lester Laminack
• Day By Day: Refining Writing Workshop Through 180 Days of Reflective Practice by Ruth Ayres & Stacey Shubitz
• How's It Going? by Carl Anderson
• Assessing Writers by Carl Anderson
• A Writer Teaches Writing by Donald M. Murray
• Small-Group Writing Conferences: How to Use Your Inhstructional Time More Efficiently by Holly Slaughter
• Ten Things Every Writer Needs to Know by Jeff Anderson
• Mechanically Inclined by Jeff Anderson
• Everyday Editing by Jeff Anderson
• Notebook Know-How by Aimee Buckner
• Writing Toward Home by Georgia Heard
• The Revision Toolbox by Georgia Heard
• The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life by Julia Cameron
• Writing Down to the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg