Struggling Readers/ Reading Comprehension:

• NWP resources for teaching reading (book suggestions, reviews, short articles, etc.)

• Book Review: Lifers: Learning from Adolescent At-Risk Readers by Pamela Mueller 

• Book Review: Action Strategies for Deepening Comprehension by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm

• African American Learners Project Annotated Bibliography

  Members of the Thinking and Development team of the African American Learners Project compiled this bibliography. In addition to resources specifically on African American learners, the bibliography provides a short list of resources for writing teachers on the achievement gap.

• Bibliography: Whiteness Studies

  This bibliography has an introduction that describes the field and contextualizes key sources as they relate to the teaching of writing.

• An Annotated Bibliography of Resources on Rural Poverty

  This bibliography, compiled by Ann Healy–Raymond and Kathy Rowland, focuses on how poverty affects the education of rural students, with a focus on the implications for literacy instruction. The authors' excellent introduction to the bibliography helps situate this research in National Writing Project contexts.

• Reading Comprehension and Informational Texts–Annotated Working Bibliography

  Growing out of the National Reading Initiative, this resource covers informational texts on reading, grades 4–12. It includes sections on content area literacy; issues of race, class, and gender; and reading and English learners.

• Urban Education Resources

• Teaching Writing: Diversity/Equity issues (NWP Resources)

Other reading resources: