Reading Literature:

• The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child by Donalyn Miller

  See also Donalyn Miller's blog The Book Whisperer -- voted as "Best Teacher Blog" in 2010 by ...

• Becoming (Other)wise: Enhancing Critical Reading Perspectives (200o) -- Ruth Vinz et. al

• Young Adult Literature Titles
  

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:

• Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading –– A report released April, 2010, by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, that identifies instructional practices shown to be effective in improving students' reading and offers recommendations for implementing those practices in the classroom.