Copeland, M. (2005). Socratic circles in action. In Socratic circles (pp. 93-109). Portland: Stenhouse.
In this book Copeland describes the ways in which you can use Socratic circles in the classroom to benefit students abilities to think more critical. It goes into detail on how students can become better thinkers and enhance their reading comprehension. This book was helpful because of the ideas and concept that go along with using Socratic methods in the classroom.
Glasgow, N. A., & Farrell, T. S. (2007). Literacy and instructional materials. In What successful literacy teachers do (pp. 108-123). Thousand oaks: Corwin Press.
This book presents ways to help make students better readers. Then in turn helping them to better understand what they are reading. The authors discuss decoding and encoding words to help students with reading, writing, thinking and other literacy processes. The basic ideas in this book were good, but what was discussed was too vague for my research project.
Mendelman, L. (2007, December/January). Critical thinking and reading. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 51(4), 300-303.
In this article, Mendelman explores how children being engaged in more and more passive activities like television and video games have hurt their ability to become critical thinkers. The burden of teaching this skill has fallen on the classroom teacher and finding way to help students has become increasingly difficult. This article was very helpful, because it reinforced what I already thought about students¼ levels of critical thinking. It also gave me a few good ideas on how to increase this skill in my students.
Meyers, C. (1986). Teaching students to think critically. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Meyers aims to help students and teachers bridge the gap between theory and the practice of teaching students to critical think. This book subjects that critical thinking should be addressed in all school curriculum areas. Different strategies and exercises are used in this book. The idea of all the content areas working on critical thinking is a great idea. It should not be just the reading teacher who works on this skill. This book had good theories on how to implement this idea across the curriculum.
McCombs, B.L., & Miller, L. (2007).Learner-center classroom practices and assessments. Thousand oaks: Corwin.
This book provides instructional strategies and assessment that help with the learning partnerships between teachers and their students. Miller and McCombs also give examples of how parent, the community, administrators, and other staff members can help facilitate better learning centers in the classroom. Learning centers can work at any age and this book has some good ideas on how to use centers with older students.
Pauker, R. A. (19995). Teaching thinking and reasoning skills (B. Brodinsky, Ed.). Arlington: Congressional Arts.
The research done by Pauker is trying to see if introducing thinking skills into daily lesson plans is helping students increase their thinking and reasoning skills. This research looks at what has been done in the past and what will help our young in the future to increase their critical thinking skills. Pauker had some good ways on how to incorporate thinking skills into my daily lesson plans. I think this will help students use critical thinking skills on a daily bases.
Tovani, C. (2000). I read i, but i don't get it. Portland: Stenhouse.
Tovani book covers many aspects on how to make students better readers and better at comprehending what they have read. It has strategies and ways to use those strategies in the classroom. I found this book an easy read and had great usable information.
Why questions. (1987). In W. W. Wilen (Ed.), Questions, questioning techniques, and effective teaching (pp. 9-21). Library of Congress: National Education Association.
This book gives good reasons and examples of how and why to use open-ended questions in the classroom. The research states how students become better thinkers when the right the questions are created and asked. This book was a very good reference on how to implement questioning skill in my classroom.
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