Yellow Brick Roads shared best practices on creating a curriculum that is student-focused. A plethora of strategies and outside resources are offered. Numerous examples of student learning are given. All reading and writing teachers should own a copy of this book.
LOVE THIS BOOK! It is packed with effective, practiced strategies for working with reluctant and struggling adolescent readers. Highly recommend this for any teacher teaching middle or high school level reading.
More valuable for assessment tools than the ideas inside-- however, my opinion may be jaded because some of these reading books are so similar! The book is still helpful- it just has some overlap to other literacy/reading tomes.
I was hoping this would give me new ideas for guided reading, but it didn't. I think it's too old. But, I did get some good short story recommendations from it.
A nice look at literacy in the classroom. For those who are new to the concept of balanced literacy in a secondary English-Language Arts class, this book is a great introduction.
This book was an essential text in my school library in my first year as a high school literacy coach years ago. I heard Janet Allen speak and bought the book. I'm no longer a coach, but still use and adapt the resources that she has in the back of the book in schools with whom I consult.