Allen, Janet.
Yellow Brick Roads; Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading
. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers, 2000. Research-based methods to help teachers establish comprehensive literacy instruction in the classroom.
Bernays, Edward.
Propaganda
. Brooklyn, NY: Ig Publishing, 2005. Originally published in 1928. A look at how government and corporations use propaganda to influence people.
Blake, William.
Songs of Innocence and Experience.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. This edition contains reproductions of the 54 plates that Blake originally etched and colored to accompany his poems.
Burke, Jim.
Reading Reminders.
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2000. This book includes 100 techniques for teaching reading across the curriculum.
Burke, Jim.
What's the Big Idea? Question-Driven Units to Motivate Reading, Writing and Thinking.
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2010. Burke shows teachers how to design lessons based on essential questions to increase student engagement and comprehension.
Chomsky, Noam.
Media Control
. New York: Seven Stories Press, 1991. Essays on the prevalence and impact of propaganda in society.
Foster, Thomas C.
How to Read Literature Like a Professor.
New York: Harper-Collins, 2003. A practical approach to enhance reading skills and viewing story telling in all of its forms as a quest.
Gallagher, Kelly.
Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling & Mentor Texts.
Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers, 2011. Gallagher offers strategies to help students identify and write writing with "real world" purposes.
Laneyrie-Dagen, Nadeije.
How to Read Paintings
. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers, Ltd. 2002. Techniques and strategies for evaluating paintings.
Schlechty, Philip C.
Engaging Students: The Next Level of Working on the Work
. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2011. A framework for rethinking lesson plans as lesson design and considering students as "customers."
Sontag, Susan.
On Photography
. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977. Essays on the photography's impact on culture and society.
Sprin, Anne Whiston.
Daring to Look
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. A collection of photos and texts from Dorothea Lange's fieldwork during the 1939.