Writing Awards and Competitions

Random House Creative Writing Competition for NYC Public High School Seniors

www.worldofexpression.org

Must-Have Books for Teaching

The First Days of School, by Harry Wong.

Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Information Writing K-8, by Joann Portalupi and Ralph Fletcher. Stenhouse Publishers, 2001.

Fiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Fiction Writing K-8, by Joann Portalupi and Ralph Fletcher. Stenhouse Publishers, 2001.

When Students Can’t Read, What Teachers Can Do, by Kylene Beers

History Alive! Engaging All Learners in the Diverse Classroom, Teachers' Curriculum Institute.

Response and Analysis, Second Edition: Teaching Literature in Secondary School, by Robert E. Probst.

I Read it But I Don’t Get It, by Chris Tovani

Reading Don’t Fix No Chevys: Reading in Literacy in the Lives of Young Men by Michael W Smith and Jeffrey D Wilhelm

Free Materials

Donors Choose

Films

Out of Africa
Gandhi
300

Field Trips

The Morgan Library
United Nations
NYPL Libary--main and local branch
School basement
United Nations
Tenement Museum

Humanities 10 Book Ideas

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan--China
Kingdom of the World--Haiti

Books for Teaching

These are the books I reference throughout each year

Non Fiction Craft Lessons
Fiction Craft Lessons
Enjoying Global History
History Alive!
The First Days of School
Setting Limits in the Classroom