Book Review

The Fall issue will feature of review of this book by Susan Toma-Berge.

John, Paul, George & Ben

Written and Illustrated by Lane Smith

Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly

by Alan Madison

My Life As A Chicken

by Ellen Kelley
By Ellen Kelley

Do Unto Otters

By Laurie Keller

A Frog Thing

by Eric Drachman

Owney: The Mail-Pouch Pooch

by Mona Kerby, Illustrated by Lynne Barasch

The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie

Alabama Moon

by Watt Key

No Talking

Millie Waits For the Mail

By Alexander Steffensmeier

What Really Matters in Response to Intervention: Research-based Designs

By Richard Allington

Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs

by Ron Koertge

Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba

by Margarita Engle

Ratfink

by Marcia Thornton Jones

Locked Garden

by Gloria Whelan

Wild Things

Leaving Gee's Bend

Chee-Lin: A Giraffe’s Journey

Zarafa: The Giraffe Who Walked to the King

Mirror-Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse

This Tree Counts!

No Easy Way

Henry Aaron's Dream

RtI Resources

The summer issue of The California Reader will feature several articles on Response to Intervention (RtI). As a preview (and for discussion), check out these online resources:

The IRIS Center (funded by IES) has several modules that will acquaint teachers with the background and research on RtI as well as modules for implementation.

The RtI Action Network provides additional online resources for teachers at all grade levels.

Look forward to more resources when the summer issue arrives in your mailbox!

On Solid Ground (Taberski, 2000)

Featured in the spring issue of the California Reader in an article by Melissa Schulz and Barbara Honchell, On Solid Ground: Strategies for Teaching Reading K-3 is a useful book authored by Sharon Taberski suggesting reading techniques and methods for kindergarten through third grade.