"Teaching is a work of heart..."
Inspirational Quotations: Personal Growth:
Books: Elementary* Words Their Way (Invernizzi and Bear) - word study; phonics
* Guiding Readers and Writers: Teaching Comprehension, Genre and Content Literacy (Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell) * Strategies That Work (Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis) - comprehension instruction
Secondary
* When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do. (Kylene Bears) - great checklist at back* I Read it But I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers (Cris Tovani) - summaries; graphic organizers* Words Their Way (Invernizzi and Bear) - phonics
Philadelphia-Camden* Philadelphia: A 300 Year History (Russell Weigley)* Reshaping Ethnic and Racial Relationships in Philadelphia: Immigrants in a Divided City (Judith Goode)* Camden: Images of America (Cheryl L. Baisden)* Prayer for the City (Buzz Bissinger) * Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia ( E. Digby Baltzell)* The Private City (Sam Bass Warner)* Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia (Matthew J. Countryman)* Metropolitan Philadelphia (Steve Conn)Camden After the Fall (Howard Gillette, Jr.) Urban Education* I Choose to Stay (Salome Thomas El)* Code of the Street (Elijah Anderson)
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