This Readings Section will showcase materials and resources (print and online) that past and present fellows recommend as reference in the teaching of writing.

Invitational Summer Institute Selections

Breakthroughs: Classroom discoveries about teaching writing by Amy Bauman & Art Peterson (2002)

What about me? Strategies for teaching misunderstood learners by Christopher Lee & Rosemary Jackson (2001)

I read it, but I don't get it: Comprehension strategies for adolescent readers by Cris Tovani (2000)

Meet me in the middle: Becoming an accomplished middle-level teacher by Rick Wormeli (2001)

Breakthroughs: Classroom discoveries about teaching writing by Amy Bauman & Art Peterson (2002)

Bird by bird: Some instructions on writing and life by Anne Lamott (1994)

Because writing matters: Improving student writing in our schools by NWP & Carl Nagin (2003)

The writer's workout book: 113 stretches toward better prose by Art Peterson (1996)

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