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Books
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Books

Micro Mentor Texts: Using Short Passages From Great Books to Teach Writer’s Craft

2022

Micro Mentor Texts: Using Short Passages From Great Books to Teach Writer’s Craft

By Penny Kittle

Heart Maps: Helping Students Create and Craft Authentic Writing

2016

Heart Maps: Helping Students Create and Craft Authentic Writing

By Georgia Heard With Essays by Pam Allyn, Nancie Atwell, and Penny Kittle

Lessons from a Writer's Life: Readings and Resources for Teachers and Students

2011

Lessons from a Writer's Life: Readings and Resources for Teachers and Students

By Judith Ortiz Cofer with Teaching Ideas by Harvey "Smokey" Daniels, Penny Kittle, and Carol Jago

The Greatest Catch: A Life in Teaching

2005

The Greatest Catch: A Life in Teaching

By Penny Kittle

4 Essential Studies: Beliefs and Practices to Reclaim Student Agency

2021

4 Essential Studies: Beliefs and Practices to Reclaim Student Agency

By Penny Kittle and Kelly Gallagher

Children Want to Write: Donald Graves and the Revolution in Children's Writing

2013

Children Want to Write: Donald Graves and the Revolution in Children's Writing

Edited By Thomas Newkirk and Penny Kittle

Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing

2008

Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing

By Penny Kittle

Inside Writing: How to Teach the Details of Craft

2005

Inside Writing: How to Teach the Details of Craft

By Donald H. Graves and Penny Kittle

180 DAYS: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents

2018

180 DAYS: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents

By Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle

Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers

2013

Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers

By Penny Kittle

Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice

2007

Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice

Edited By Kylene Beers, Robert E. Probst and Linda Rief. Includes "The Importance of Choice" by Penny Kittle

Public Teaching: One Kid at a Time

2003

Public Teaching: One Kid at a Time

By Penny Kittle

In this section, you'll find a variety of resources available for download including reading lists, mentor texts, quick writes, workshop handouts, samples of my writing, and what I'm reading. 

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Teaching 
Resources

Celebrate teachers and a joy of reading with The Book Love Foundation Podcast. Hosts Penny Kittle and Julia Torres and their guests help teachers develop a love of reading in their students.

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Stories From The
Teaching Life

One of the words that you used with us, Tom, as our editor was options, and I think that's such an important word. Does a student have an array of options to choose from? Do they understand that there are lots of ways to begin a piece of writing no matter what genre it is. And then do they know ways that authors have written those kinds of things? So they can look at a text and say, oh, I see what this author is doing.

I had to say, you know what, there are kids in this room who know how to do things better than me. So if you want to learn how to do X, you're over here in this group, and if you want to learn how to do Y, you're over there in that group. And then I would sit in, in the groups and I would try to learn another move that I could make an iMovie or something like that. 

But as the book club progressed, their questions were deeper. Their responses became just increasingly serious. What was that one kids, this book was a godsend to me when of Kelly's said, because I'm half Mexican, half white and Mexican Whiteboy by Matt de la Pena really said something to him. It was such a vulnerable moment and he posted it and then other kids could respond to that with their own understandings of the book. It was this wonderful way to bridge two cultures as well.

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Excerpts From The Podcast

Penny Kittle

Kelly Gallagher

Penny Kittle

Podcast

Penny speaks on topics in literary education K-12 throughout North America and across the world. She frequently works as a teacher in residence, co-teaching
and planning alongside classroom teachers. 

If you are interested in booking Penny Kittle for a speaking event, please contact michelle.flynn@heinemann.com.

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Conferences 
& Workshops 

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Upcoming Events

Jan. 8, Manhattan Hunter School of Science, New York

Jan. 9, Kennett Middle School, Conway, NH

Jan. 11, Washington Township Schools, New Jersey

Jan. 17, Middle RESA, Georgia

Jan. 22, Cypress HS, Florida

Jan. 25 Kennebunk, Maine

Jan. 26-27 Texas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts

Jan. 29, Manhattan Hunter School of Science, NY

 

Feb. 2-3 South Carolina Council of Teachers of English

Feb. 6, Madison, CT

Feb. 8, Alberta, Canada

Feb. 10, Wisconsin State Reading Association

Feb. 12, Manhattan Hunter School of Science, NY

Feb. 13, Kennett Middle School, Conway, NH

Feb. 15, Kennebunk, Maine

Feb. 22-23, Reading for the Love of It, Toronto, Ontario

Feb. 26, Manhattan Hunter School of Science, NY

Feb. 28, Gahanna, OH

 

Mar. 1, Liberty, MO

Mar. 5, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Mar. 12, Kennett Middle School, Conway, NH

Mar. 14, Washington Township Schools, New Jersey

Mar. 20, 80 Days webinar w/Kelly Gallagher, TBA

Mar. 21-22, BYU Literacy Promises Conference, Provo, UT

Mar. 27, 180 Days webinar w/Kelly Gallagher, TBA

Mar. 29, Maine Council of English Language Arts, Portland, ME

 

April 3, 180 Days webinar w/Kelly Gallagher, TBA

April 5-6 Don Graves Write Now conference, North Conway, NH

April 9, Kennett Middle School, Conway, NH

April 11, CESA 3, Fennimore, Wisconsin

 

May 2, Kennett Middle School, Conway, NH

May 16, Kennebunk, Maine

May 30, Kennett Middle School, Conway, NH

 

June 5, Jenks, Oklahoma

June 10-12, Belleville, IL

June 24 & 26, Amherst, NH

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