{"id":150,"date":"2007-12-04T07:13:55","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T14:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/literature-teachers-essential-library"},"modified":"2016-10-03T06:26:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T13:26:52","slug":"literature-teachers-essential-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/literature-teachers-essential-library","title":{"rendered":"Literature Teacher’s Essential Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

Which books should be on the bookshelf of every literature teacher?\u00c2\u00a0 The following list represents my personal picks:<\/p>\n

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  1. How to Read a Book<\/a> by Mortimer Adler – If you’ve read Teen Literacy Tips for any length of time you probably know how much I value this book.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s the book that’s had the biggest impact on my own personal reading habits and on the way I teach literature.<\/li>\n
  2. \"LifetimeThe New Lifetime Reading Plan<\/a> by Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major<\/li>\n
  3. Read for Your Life: 11 Ways to Better Yourself Through Books<\/a> by Pat Williams<\/li>\n
  4. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia: Fourth Edition (Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia)<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers<\/a> by Nancie Atwell<\/li>\n
  6. In the Middle: New Understanding About Writing, Reading, and Learning<\/a> by Nancie Atwell<\/li>\n
  7. Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs & Reading Groups<\/a> by Harvy Daniels<\/li>\n
  8. Mini-Lessons for Literature Circles<\/a> by Harvey Daniels<\/li>\n
  9. Socratic Circles: Fostering Critical And Creative Thinking In Middle And High School<\/a> by Matt Copeland<\/li>\n
  10. Socratic Seminars and Literature Circles for Middle and High School English<\/a> by Victor Moeller<\/li>\n
  11. Reading for Understanding<\/a> by Ruth Schoenbach<\/li>\n
  12. Building Academic Literacy: Lessons from Reading Apprenticeship Classrooms, Grades 6-12<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. Building Academic Literacy: An Anthology for Reading Apprenticeship<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Improving Comprehension with Think-Aloud Strategies: Modeling What Good Readers Do<\/a> by Jeffrey Wilhelm<\/li>\n
  15. Going with the Flow: How to Engage Boys (and Girls) in Their Literacy Learning<\/a> by Jeffrey Wilhelm<\/li>\n
  16. “You Gotta BE the Book”: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading with Adolescents, Second Edition<\/a> by Jeffrey Wilhelm<\/li>\n
  17. The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. For the Love of Books<\/a> by Ronald Shwartz
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  19. A Passion for Books : A Book Lover’s Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. The Book on the Bookshelf<\/a> by HenryPetroski<\/li>\n
  21. Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books<\/a> by H.J. Jackson<\/li>\n
  22. The Delights of Reading: Quotes, Notes & Anecdotes<\/a> edited by Otto Bettmann<\/li>\n
  23. The Reader’s Quotation Book, a Literary Companion<\/a> edited by Steven Gilbar<\/li>\n
  24. Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to Memorize<\/a> edited by John Hollander<\/li>\n
  25. The World’s Shortest Stories: Murder, Love, Horror, Suspense, All This and Much More in the Most Amazing Short Stories Ever Written, Each One Just 55 Words Long<\/a> edited by Steve Moss<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What’s in your library?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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