READING / LANGUAGE ARTS

• Phonemic Awareness - Creative Teaching Press/Playing with Words to Strengthen Reading Skills

• Phonemic Awareness Activities - W. Blevins For Early Reading Success

• Pre-reading Activities for Content area Reading and Learning Second Edition - D. Moore, J. Readence, P. Fickielman

• Classrooms That Work: They can All Read and Write - Cunningham, Allington

• Reader's Workshop Real Reading - P. Hagerty

• Literature Circles - Harvey Daniels, Voice: Choice in the Student Centered Classroom

• Mosaic of Thought - E.O. Keene and S. Zimmerman, Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop

• Second Language Learners - Stephen Cary

• Teach Our Children Well: Bringing K-12 Education in the 21st Century - R. Calfee, C. Palrich

• Becoming A Nation of Readers - R. Anderson, et. al.,

• Joyful Learning in Kindergarden - Bobbi Fisher

• Words Their Way - D. Bear, M. Invernizzi, S. Templeton, F. Johnston Word study for Phonics, Vocabulary and Spelling Instruction

• Teaching Reading in the Content Area - R. BillMayer and M.L. Barton, McRel, Aurora, CO., 1998

• Teaching Reading in the 21st Century - M. Graves, C. Juel, and B. Graves. Allyn and Bacon, Needham Heights, MA 1998

• Phonics in Proper Perspective - 8th Edition, A.W. Hailman, Prentice-Hall Inc. Upper Eaddle River, New Jersey, 1998

PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT

• The Model Integrated Thematic Instruction - Susan Kovalik, Karen Olen

• Posing Open Ended Questions - Christina Myren

• The Teacher's Resource Guide - S.B. McCarney, Hawthorne Educational Service, Inc. Columbia, MO 1994

• Portfolio Assessment and Evaluation: Developing and Using Portfolios in the Classroom - J. Batzel

• Keys to the Classroom: A Teacher's Guide to the First Month of School - C. Moran, et. al.

• Portfolios in the Classroom - J. Clemmons

• Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom - Thomas Armstrong

• How to Make Meetings Work - M. Doyle, D. Straus

• The First Days of School - Harry Wong

• Models of Teaching - B. Joyce, M. Weil

UNDERSTANDING STUDENTS AND THEIR WORLD

• The Multicultural Classroom: Reading for Content Area Teachers - Richard Amato, Snow

• Developmentally Appropriate Practice In Early Childhood Programs: Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8 - S. Breadkamp

• Multicultural Myths and Legends: Stories and Activities to Promote Cultural Awareness - Tara McCarthy

• Unbank the Fire: Visions for the Education of African-American Children - Janice E. Hale

• 20th Century LA: Power Promotion and Social Conflict - M. Klein, M. Schiesl

• Secondary Instruction - J. Levine

• An Introduction to Multicultural Education - James A. Banks

• From Rage to Hope: Strategies for Reclaiming Black and Hispanic Students - Crystal Kuykendall

• Multicultural Manner: New Rules of Etiquette for a Changing Society - Norine Dreuser

• Pepita Talks Twice: Pepita Habla Dos Veces - D. Lachtman

• Ethnic LA - Jena Pearlstone

• Multiethnic Education - Banks, Allen and Bacon, Needham Heights, MA 1999

• Positive Classroom Management - Frederic H. Jones

• Assertive Discipline: Positive Behavior Management for Today's Classroom - Lee Canter, M. Canter

• The Quality School Teacher - W. Glasser

• Endangered Minds: Why Our Children Won't Think - Jane Healy

• Choice Theory in The Classroom - W. Glasser

• Reality Therapy - W. Glasser

INFORMAL MATHEMATICS

• Mathematics and Literature - Marilyn Burns

• A Collection of Math Lessons - Marilyn Burns

• Math: Facing An American Phobia - Marilyn Burns

• Oxford Concise Dictionary of Math - Christopher Clapham

• Family Math for Young Children - Grace Davila Coates

• Scholastic Explains Math Homework - Scholastic Canada Ltd.

• Teaching Math with Favorite Picture Books Hands on Activities - Judi Hechtman and Deborah Ellermeyer

• What is Mathematics, Really? - Reuben Mersh

• The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, the Story of Paul Erdos and His Search for Truth - Paul Hoffman

• The Universal History of Numbers - Georges Ifrah

• The Nothing That is a Natural History of Zero - Robert Kaplan

• Mathematics for the Non-Mathematician - Morris Kline

• Mind over Math - Dr. Stanley Kogelman and Dr. Joseph Warren

• Getting your Math Message Out to Parents: a K-6 Resource - Nancy Lifton

• The Poetry of the Universe: A Mathematical Exploration of the Cosmos - Robert Osserman

• Fractals, Googols, and other Mathematical Tales - Theoni Pappas

• The Magic of Mathematics - Theoni Pappas

• A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper - John Allen Paulos

• It All Adds Up 8-12 Year Olds in Math Investigations - Penny Skinner

• Family Math - Jean Kim Stenmark

• Family Math the Middle School Years - Virginia Thompson and Karen Mayfield-Ingram

EDUCATION SPECIALIST

• Strategies for Teaching Students with Learning and Behavior Problems - C. S. Bos and SE. Vauhn, Allyn and Bacon, Needham Heights, MA 1998

• I Can Learn - California Department of Education, Sacramento, CA 1994

• Positive Intervention for Serious Behavior Problems - D. Browning Wright and HOB, Grumman, California Department of Education, Sacramento, CA 1998

STATE AND DISTRICT RESOURCES

• Reading/Language Arts Frameworks for California Public Schools K-12 - California Department of Education, Sacramento, CA 1999

• Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools K-12 - California Department of Education, Sacramento, CA 1999

• Health Framework - California Department of Education, Sacramento, CA 1994

• Health Social Science Framework - California Department of Education, Sacramento, CA 1997

• Science Framework - California Department of Education, Sacramento, CA 1999
   

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