DB likes to creation of social self and identity in engaging with texts and responses AND
Shifting the balance in power in the roles of teacher and student to facilitate identity dev’t
An increasing awareness for diversity and respect to fight stereotyping and prejudice

Independent Reading Inside the Box By Lisa Donohue How to organize, observe, and assess reading strategies that promote deeper thinking and improve comprehension in K–8 classrooms

The best-selling first edition of this popular book showed teachers how to use a single sheet of paper to help students focus on reading books they love rather than filling reading time with busy work. This highly anticipated second edition explores critical literacy to help promote higher-order thinking skills, relating independent reading response to instructional core. It offers sixteen new reading response “boxes”, with strategies for using them as prompts and in blended learning tasks, and options for providing thoughtful and effective feedback and assessment. The author argues for giving students choice among response tasks, and exploring innovative ways to make thinking visible during independent reading.

Powerful Readers by Adrienne Gear and Kyla Hadden
Powerful Readers

Thinking strategies to guide literacy instruction in secondary classrooms

At any age or grade level, Powerful Readers are those who are aware of their thinking as they read. The assumption is that high school students don't need to be taught how to read; but even if they can decode words and gain literal understanding, they often don't think deeply about what they are reading. Presenting a balance of theory and practical lessons, Powerful Readers demonstrates that instruction in the key strategies of connecting, visualizing, questioning, inferring, determining importance, and transforming can help students develop their reading skills and get more out of their work with fiction and nonfiction. Step-by-step lessons for introducing and using the strategies, connections to literary devices, and reading lists for each strategy are all part of this valuable resource.

Still Learning to Read by Franki Sibberson & Karen Szymusiak
Teaching students in grades 3-6

This innovative book from the authors of Beyond Leveled Books shows you how to match appropriate instruction and texts to the specific needs of older readers with sample lessons, descriptions of classroom routines, and stories from the authors` reading workshops. Planning forms, assessment and conference strategies, tips for designing lessons using nonfiction and magazines, and methods to promote student independence will help you make reading purposeful, thoughtful, and effective. A timely discussion of alternatives to levels for matching students, books, and skills instruction.

Struggling Readers by Lori Jamison Rog
Why band-aids don't stick and worksheets don't work

More than temporary patches on discrete skills, the practical, classroom-tested strategies in this insightful book show teachers how to give struggling readers what they really need. Designed to be effective with students in grades 3-9, Struggling Readers delivers advice on teaching that targets students' needs, and offers kids opportunities to read texts that they can and want to read. It highlights explicit instruction and guided practice in comprehension. Most importantly, the book also illustrates ways to help students build confidence in themselves as readers, writers, and thinkers. This valuable resource will help teachers adapt early-years guided reading strategies to help older students still struggling with the basics.

This is a Great Book! by Larry Swartz and Shelley Stagg Peterson

101 events for building enthusiastic readers inside and outside the classroom — from chapter books to young adult novels

“This Is a Great Book!” champions the belief that having a wide range of “great” books to read is essential to students’ becoming readers — both inside the classroom, and beyond. Based on extensive research, this highly readable book explores a range of recommended titles that cover a spectrum of developmental stages, from early chapter books to young adult novels. The 101 literacy events outlined within include a wealth of practical strategies: more than fifty reproducible activities, assessment profiles, and inventories for easy classroom use. Committed to nurturing the love of reading, this passionate book invites readers to dig deeper by responding through writing, discussion, the arts, media, and more. Special attention is given to the world of leisure reading, where readers make choices based on their preferences and tastes as they build a lifelong interest in fiction that will enrich their li