Every summer I have a long list of books that I want to read! These often include new releases of books for teaching. With my summer break starting tomorrow (and a little inspiration from our exchange student who has read 5 books in the last two weeks on vacation in Italy), I wanted to take this post to share about some new books that have been released or are being released, along with some of my old favorites that you might want to add to your reading list this summer! If you don’t want to think about teaching at all over summer, scroll to the last paragraph for some other reading inspiration!
The Writing Strategies Book is an old favorite of mine, but Jennifer Serravallo just released this new version with 50 new charts in spiral binding! She also released Companion Charts to go with it! These are perfect for small groups and conferencing with students! She also has an updated reading strategies book that was published in 2023.
Another Jennifer Serravallo May 2024 release is Teaching Reading Across the Day I haven’t read this yet, but this is on my summer read list this summer! I’m so excited to see ideas for incorporating reading into multiple subjects in middle school and how I can apply it to my own classroom next year.
Another May 2024 release is Mathematics Tasks for the Thinking Classroom! It can also be found an Amazon. I haven’t read this one either, but I have read and applied Building Thinking Classrooms to my own math classroom. Building Thinking Classrooms changed the way I teach mathematics. It’s an amazing resource, so I’m sure this elementary specific addition is just as valuable!
For K-3 teachers, The Ramped-Up Read Aloud is a great resource that was released in 2018. It includes lessons for books such as The Turnip, The Invisible Boy, Mother Bruce, Creepy Pair of Underwear, I am Abraham Lincoln, Rosie Revere Engineer, The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors, and so many more! It’s split nicely into multiple sections, including books for building classroom community, for teaching literacy elements and comprehension for fiction, for teaching comprehension for nonfiction, for building foundational skills, and for writing inspiration!
The Coffee Bean is a short read that isn’t like the above books. It isn’t a how-to teach book or a book for specific subjects or grade levels. This book is a book of inspiration. Maybe you had a rough year or you want to try to have a more positive outlook! Published in 2019, this book is a book that shows the power you have in how you see the world while using a metaphor of a coffee bean!
Summer is also a great time to reset and forget about teaching! I usually look at Oprah’s Book Club or The New York Times or my local bookshop to find books to read for pleasure! Right now I’m finishing Get Out of Your Head, Wild Girls, and Dreamland and have Cilka’s Journey, I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn’t), and Escape To Florence waiting to be opened on my bookshelf!
If you have some favorite reads that others can add to their summer reading list, make sure to leave a comment!
Have fun reading!
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