Library & Reading Lists
Our goal is to make this website useful to teachers, so visit often to see what new resources and information we've added.
Book Love Foundation
Kennett High School
Summer Reading 2014
- KHS Library Recommendations
- Fiction and Nonfiction Trade and Picture Books for High School Content Areas
Reading Ladders
- Q1 Reading Ladder Analysis, November 2014
- Q3 Reading Ladder
- Q1 Reading Ladder: Analyzing your reading progress
For Parents
Listen to Students
Boys and Reading 2013NCTE 2013 Sam
Penny Answers Questions About Independent Reading
Prize Winners
Professional Books
Reading Lists & Teacher Resources
- UNH book list: Nonfiction Social Justice, Fiction, Non-fiction for Middle School, Recommendations for Students in grades 11 & 12, Science Fiction, Upper Elementary Speculative Fiction with a focus on Fantasy
- UNH book list of Comics and Graphic Novels
- UNH more books: Science Fiction, YALSA 2014 Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers, Books for Middle School Boys, Dystopian YA Novels, Inspiring Readers with the Newest YA Literature Award Winners (NCTE Annual Convention 2012)
- Best Books of 2011 (so far…)—Donalyn Miller
- Book Talks for High School 2009–2010, Gettings Guys to Read (and in the Flow)
- Reading Conference Videos on Penny Kittle's website.
Research That Supports Independent Reading
- Adolescent Readers in Middle School By Sheen Hervey Generation Ready, 2013
- Federal Mandates on Local Education: Costs and Consequences – Yes, it’s a Race, but is it in the Right Direction? Published by Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach, State University of New York at New Paltz, Fall 2012
- Six Literacy Experiences Children Should Have Every Day by Richard Allington and Rachael Gabriel in Educational Leadership, March 2012
- What Kids Are Reading: The Book-Reading Habits of Students in American Schools by by Renaissance Learning, Inc., 2012
- Adolescent Literacy: A Position Statement of the International Reading Association, 2012
- PISA in Focus: Do students today read for pleasure? September 2011
- Publishers’ Criteria for the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and Literacy, Grades 3–12 by David Coleman and Susan Pimentel, June 2011
- The Fragile Success of School Reform in the Bronx by Jonathan Mahler, New York Times, 4/6/11
- Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading, A Report from Carnegie Corporation of New York By Steve Graham and Michael Hebert, 2010
- The Bracey Report On the Condition of Public Education, 2009
- How the Accelerated Reader program can become counterproductive for high school students by Gail Thompson, Marga Madhuri, Deborah Taylor, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literary, April 2008
- Writing Next: Effective Strategies to Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High Schools, A Report from Carnegie Corporation of New York By Steve Graham and Dolores Perin, 2007
- To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence, National Endowment for the Arts, 2007
- Farewell to A Farewell to Arms: Deemphasizing the Whole-Class Novel by Douglas Fisher and Gay Ivey, March 2007
- Reading for Pleasure: A research overview by Christina Clark and Kate Rumbold, National Literacy Trust, November 2006
- Growth in reading and how children spend their time outside of school by Richard C. Anderson, Paul T. Wilson and Linda G. Fielding, Reading Research Quarterly, Summer 1988
- Teachers Are the Center of Education: Writing, Learning and Leading in the Digital Age, published by The College Board, Phi Delta Kappa International and The National Writing Project (undated)
- Collegiate Learning Assessment (undated)
- Adolescents' Engagement in Academic Literacy by John T. Guthrie, Allan Wigfield, and Susan Lutz Klauda (undated)
- Addressing Detroit’s Basic Skills Crisis, A report from The Detroit Regional Workforce Fund
- 81 Generalizations About Free Reading by Stephen Krashen
- What I've Learned About Effective Reading Instruction by Richard Allington
- Learning to Choose: The Hidden Art of the Enthusiastic Reader by Margaret Mackey
- Why Can't I Skip 20 Minutes of Reading Tonight?
