Billington, Ray Allen.
America’s Frontier Heritage
. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 1963. A book which gives background to frontier movement.
Calkins, Lucy McCormick.
The Art of Teaching Writing
. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann. 1986. An invaluable guide to teaching writing to children.
Calkins, Lucy McCormick.
TLessons From A Child
. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann. 1983. Another very helpful and useful guide to developing writing with children.
Elbow, Peter.
Writing With Power
. New York: Oxford University Press. 1981. Techniques in developing writing and the writing process.
Gilford, Henry.
Genealogy
. New York: Franklin Watts. 1978. A very helpful book for the student researcher into his or her background.
Hilton, Suzanne.
Who Do You Think You Are
? Philadelphia: The Westminster Press. 1976. Includes lots of helpful ideas for the student to learn about his or her past.
Holt, John. “How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading.” In Arthur M. Eastman, Gen. Ed.,
The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Expository
Prose,
6th Ed. pp. 224-233. New York: W.W.Norton & Company. 1984. A very compelling look at the teaching of reading. I think it should be a “must” for teachers of literature.
Rico, Lusser Gabriele.
Writing the Natural Way
. Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher, Inc. 1983. An invaluable book on clustering and writing.
Weitzman, David.
My Backyard History Book
. Boston: Little Brown & Company. 1975. This book looks at the past and all the many avenues the student might explore.