Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Educational Gifts to Everybody

It's time to hit the bookstore. I asked a team of top teachers, and experts for their recommendations for the best books on education.

1. Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children’s Learning by Peter Johnston (Stenhouse, 2004)

2. Learning to Trust: Transforming Difficult Elementary Classrooms Through Developmental Discipline by Marilyn Watson and Laura Ecken (Jossey-Bass, 2003)

3. The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers by Nancie Atwell (Scholastic, 2007)

4. The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol (Three Rivers Press, 2005)

5. Schooling America: How the Public Schools Meet the Nation’s Changing Needs by Patricia Albjerg Graham (Oxford University Press, 2007)

6. Mosaic of Thought: The Power of Comprehension Strategy Instruction by Ellin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmermann (Heinemann, 2007)

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