A few professional books I am reading...

I have a few books that I am really enjoying reading right now, so I wanted to share these with other teachers, administrators, and anyone else interested in what goes on in the successful classroom! 

Each book has a link to Amazon, if you want to check out more about each book!

Teach Like a Champion, 49 Tecniques that Put Students on the Path to College

by Doug Lemov

This book was reccomended to me by an AUSL student, and I have found it to be a GREAT resource to help me with some of the things that you are not taught to do in order to be a great teacher, but are critically important. 

Qualitative Reading Inventory (5th Edition)

by Lauren Leslie, JoAnne Schudt Caldwell

This is not a book for your bedside table, but I find myself picking it up several times a week in order to obtain really good assessments of student reading in order to provide appropriate scaffolding and support to each student. 

The Daily Five 

by Gail Boushey, Joan Moser

Another book that is not for your bedside table, but I strongly believe in providing balanced literacy instruction and I think this book provides a great framework to meet that goal.  I look forward to having my own class to impliment The Daily 5!

How to Assess Authentic Learning

by Kay Burke

This is a great resource that helps me look at assessments in many different ways in order to drive lessons, assess student leanring, and make changes to instruction.