My education books

Hi everyone,

I’ve been thinking that the education book with MARY JO FRESCH coming out in August with Stenhouse will be #19. I just went through the files and can only find 18 counting this one. LAURA ROBB and I have discussed a new collaboration that she plans to propose to a publisher we’ve both published with, but if I’m going to reach twenty, I’ll need to do one more after that. Bring them on!

Here’s the list.

Books co-written for Classroom Teachers as of 1/19/26

2026	The Phonics Handbook Poetry Collection: 101 Decodable Poems for Reinforcing Sound Letter Patterns (with Mary Jo Fresch), Stenhouse
2024:	The Fluency Development Lesson, Closing the Reading Gap (with Lynne Kulich and Tim Rasinski), Benchmark
2024	40 Poems for 40 Weeks, Integrating Meaningful Poems and Word ladders into Grades 3-5 Literacy (co-edited with Tim Rasinski), Routledge/Taylor & Francis
2022	Partner Poems & Word Ladders for Building Foundational Literacy Skills; Grades	K-2 (with Tim Rasinski and Mary Jo Fresch), Scholastic
2022	Partner Poems & Word Ladders for Building Foundational Literacy Skills; Grades	1-3 (with Tim Rasinski and Mary Jo Fresch), Scholastic
2020 	A Guided Practice for Reading Growth, Grades 4-8: Texts and Lessons to Improve Fluency, Comprehension, and Vocabulary (with Laura Robb and Tim Rasinski), Corwin Literacy
2020	Empowering Students' Knowledge of Vocabulary: Learning How Language Works, Grades 3-5 (with Mary Jo Fresch), National Council for Teachers of English
2017:	7 Keys to Research for Writing Success (with Mary Jo Fresch), Scholastic
2016:	Rhymes for the Times: Literacy Strategies through Social Studies (with Timothy 
Rasinski), Shell Education
2013:	Learning through Poetry: Short Vowels (with Mary Jo Fresch), Shell Education
2013:	Learning through Poetry: Long Vowels (with Mary Jo Fresch), Shell Education 
2013:	Learning through Poetry: Consonants (with Mary Jo Fresch), Shell Education
2013:	Learning through Poetry: Consonants and Blends (with Mary Jo Fresch), Shell Education
2013:	Learning through Poetry: Rimes (with Mary Jo Fresch), Shell Education 
2013:	Let’s Write This Week with David Harrison (DVD series, guide book, with Lauren Edmondson); Phoenix Learning Resources
2009:	Partner Poems for Building Fluency (with Tim Rasinski and Gay Fawcett), 
Scholastic
2003:	Using the Power of Poetry (with Kathy Holderith), Scholastic
1999:	Easy Poetry Lessons that Dazzle and Delight (with Bernice Cullinan), Scholastic

January on Goose Lake

Hi everyone,

Goose Lake is icing over. Starting from the shores, the sheets are edging toward the center, leaving a passage that grows narrower each hour. This morning a few geese are navigating their way like silent ships working through the channel.

On the surface of things, all is quiet on the lake, save for the geese with their legs churning them along through frigid water. I’m thinking of the frogs and turtles of summer; the local birds, toads, worms, insects — all the life that sang love songs and tilled the soil and patrolled water and built nests and sunned on rocks.

Some have left. Some have perished. But most are still here, making do with temperatures cold enough to freeze a human to death, days and nights when food is scarce or nonexistent. How each member of the Goose Lake community weathers the weather would fill books, has filled books. Winter is a vital time, a time to rest, wait it out, survive. The trees, standing naked in the wind, bare limbs raised as though in surrender, wind chimes dangling like noisy baubles clanging out the time till spring, know.