A list of books, articles and websites that we rely on to implement evidence-based practices in our classroom: 

 

Balanced Literacy Diet. http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Home/

 

Calkins, L., Mraz, K., & Golub, B. (2013). Nonfiction chapter books: Grade 1, Unit 2, Information. Portsmouth, NH: First Hand, Heinemann.

 

Cunningham, P.M., & Allington, R.L. (2011). Classrooms that work (5th Ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

 

Cunningham, P.M & Allington, R.L., . (2007).  Schools that work 3rd Ed.  Boston: Allyn & Bacon.    

Ch. 6.  Time: Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Years. Pp. 132-154.

 

Gambrell, L. (1996). Creating classroom cultures that foster reading motivation. The Reading Teacher, 50 (1), 14-25. 

 

Ontario Ministry of Education. (2006). The Ontario curriculum grades 1-8: Language.

 

Ontario Ministry of Education. (2010). Growing success: Assessment, evaluation, and reporting in Ontario schools.

 

Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read, Spetember 2001.

 

Reading Rockets. http://www.readingrockets.org/

 

Reid, J. & Schultze, B. (2012). What's next for this beginning writer. Markham, ON: Pembroke Publishers.

 

Turner, J. & Paris, S.G. (1995). How literacy tasks influence children's motivation for literacy. The Reading Teacher, 48 (8),        

662-673.