Readings

The following texts and readings will be available to participants as resources, but will not be required as a purchase. The daily readings will be primarily on-line resources.
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Beers, Kylene. (2012) //Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading//. Heinemann Publishers.

Campbell, Kimberly Hill. (2007) //Less is More: Teaching Literature with Short Text.// Stenhouse Publishers.

Daniels, Harvey, et al. (2007).//Content-Area Writing: Every Teacher’s Guide//. Heinemann Publishers.

Gallagher, Kelly. (2010). //Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling and Mentor Texts.// Stenhouse Publishers.

Graff, Gerald and Cathy Birkenstein. (2009) //They Say, I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing//, second edition. W.W. Norton & Company, NY, NY: 2010.

Hillocks, George, Jr. (2011). //Teaching Argument Writing Grades 6-12: Supporting Claims with relevant Evidence and Clear Reasoning.// Heinemann Publishers.

Linder Ph.D., Rozlyn. (2013) //Common Core Guidebook, 6-8: Informational Text Lessons, Guided Practice, Suggested Book Lists, and Reproducible Organizers.// The Literacy Initiative.

Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. (1999-2011). //Curriculum frameworks//. Malden, MA: Author. [Online] Available: [] 2011 Supplemental Material for ELA and Literacy Standards o Appendix A: research-based discussion about the strands (Readable, interesting) o Appendix B: text exemplars and sample performance tasks o Appendix C: sample student work with commentary

Romano, Tom. (2000) //Blending Genre, Altering Style: Writing the Multigenre Paper.// Heinemann Publishers.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">In addition, articles will be referenced in the following lesson plans from a variety of on-line resources that relate to writing to text, to Common Core shifts, literacy best practices, the PARCC web site, and the Massachusetts Writing Standards in Action website.