Harvey Daniels

Harvey Daniels has been a city and suburban classroom teacher and a college professor, and now works as a national consultant and author on literacy education. In language arts, Smokey is known for his pioneering work on student book clubs, as recounted in Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups, and Minilessons for Literature Circles. Smokey has recently coauthored three bestselling books on content-area literacy: Comprehension & Collaboration; Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading, and Content-Area Writing: Every Teacher's Guide. He is also coauthor of the new Best Practice, Fourth Edition, and editor of Comprehension Going Forward. 

Smokey works with elementary and secondary teachers throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, offering demonstration lessons, workshops, and consulting, with a special focus on creating, sustaining, and renewing student-centered inquiries and discussions of all kinds. Smokey shows colleagues how to simultaneously build students' reading strategies, balance their reading diets, and strengthen the social skills they need to become genuine lifelong readers.

Available from Harvey Daniels

• Inquiry Circles Staff Development Bundle, Grades K-5 (bundle)


• Inquiry Circles Staff Development Bundle, Grades 6-12 (bundle)


• Comprehension and Collaboration Book Study Bundle (bundle)


• Comprehension Going Forward Book Study Bundle (bundle)


• Texts and Lessons with Subjects Matter Bundle (bundle)


• Best Practice Book Study Bundle (bundle)


• Inquiry Circles in Elementary Classrooms (DVD): New Strategies for Comprehension and Collaboration (dvd)


• Inquiry Circles in Middle and High School Classrooms (DVD): New Strategies for Comprehension and Collaboration (dvd)


• Best Practice in Literacy: Comprehension, Collaboration and Content (institute)


• A Community of Writers: Teaching Writing in the Junior and Senior High School (paperback)


• Best Practice, 2e: New Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools (paperback)


• Rethinking High School: Best Practice in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership (paperback)


• Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading (paperback)


• Mini-lessons for Literature Circles (paperback)


• Best Practice, Third Edition: Today's Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools (paperback)


• Content-Area Writing: Every Teacher's Guide (paperback)


• Comprehension and Collaboration: Inquiry Circles in Action (paperback)


• Texts and Lessons for Content-Area Reading: With More Than 75 Articles from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, Car and Driver, Chicago Tribune, and Many Others (paperback)


• Lessons from a Writer's Life: Readings and Resources for Teachers and Students (paperback)


• Comprehension Going Forward: Where We Are and What's Next (paperback)


• Kid-Tested Writing Lessons for Grades 3-6: Daily Workshop Practices That Support the Common Core State Standards (paperback)


• Best Practice, Fourth Edition: Bringing Standards to Life in America's Classrooms (paperback)


• Rethinking High School: Best Practice in Action (video)