Verda's Suggested Resources

Post date: Mar 29, 2012 6:31:41 PM

from Libby

• A Lesson Before Dying- Ernest Gaines
• Everyday Use- Alice Walker
• NY Times- Windows on the World
• Sylvester and the Magic Pebble/ Brave Irene- Steig
• Able's Island
• The Circuit- Francisco Jimenez
• Fables and Fairy Lands- Tolstoy
• Beauty When the Other Dancer is the Self- Alice Walker
• Still Water Saints- Alex Espinosa
• Harvard Writing Center
• David McCullough (biographer interviewed on Charlie Rose)
• ReadWriteThink.org- peer reviewed lesson plans
• A Literature in the Language Classroom
• Tesol.org
• edutopia.org
• The Grammar Book: An ESL EFL Teacher's Course
  • Recipes for Tired Teachers
  • Pictures for Teachers to Use
  • Writing Workouts
  • Larry Ferlazzo- blog/books
  • Pebble Creek Labs- literacy strategies
  • Teaching Adolescent Writers- Kelly Gallagher
  • Poetry180
  • Poetry Foundation website
  • Teaching for Tolerance