Sophie and Sadie's Scholarly Site

Childhood Favorites:

• Katie and The Sad Noise
• The Little Brute Family
• The Frances Books by Russell and Lillian Hoban
• Charlotte’s Web
• Where The Red Fern Grows
• All of A Kind Family

Classroom Favorites:

• Hank The Cowdog
• Bunnicula
• Charlie and The Chocolate factory
• A Year Down Yonder
• A Long Way from Chicago
• The Teacher’s Funeral
• Frindle
• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
• Sarah Plain and Tall
• Other favorite authors: Patricia McKissack, Eve Bunting, Cynthia Rylant, Patricia Polacco, Patricia MacLachlan, Lester Laminack, Chris Van Allsburg

Professional Favorites:

The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller

anything by Kelly Gallagher

anything by Rick Wormeli

Wonderous Words, Katie Wood Ray

Strategies That Work 

anything by Pam Allyn

Reading with Meaning  and Teaching with Intention  Debbie Miller 

Igniting a Passion for Reading, Steven Layne

Mosaic of Thought 

anything by Lucy Calkins

Nonfiction Matters, Stephanie Harvey and Ann Goudvis

Interactive Think-Alouds, Lori Ozkus

Reciprocal Teaching at Work, Lori D. Oczkus

Launching the Writing Workshop: A Step-by-Step Guide in Photographs, Denise Leograndis

First Days of School, Harry Wong

Rafe Esquith — Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire and There Are No Shortcuts -

Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading Harvey Daniels and Steven Zemelman —

anything by Laura Robb

Guilty Pleasures:

• Gone With The Wind
• Cold Sassy Tree
• Cold Mountain
• anything by Fannie Flagg
• anything by Anne Tyler
• anything by Lee Smith
• anything by Adriana Trgiani
• anything by Sharyn mcCrumb
• The Sookie StackhouseSeries
• anything  by Phillipa Gregory
• British history books
• Cookbooks
• A Dog’s Purpose

Anything I can get for $o.99 or free on my KINDLE!