About

• Chapter 1  What You Need to Know to Be an Effective Literacy Teacher
• Chapter 2  Frameworks for Effective Standards-Based Literacy Lessons
• Chapter 3  Assessment and Evaluation that Informs Instruction
• Chapter 4  Prior Knowledge:  Activating and Developing Concepts and Vocabulary
• Chapter 5  How to Teach Strategies for Constructing Meaning
• Chapter 6  Beginning Literacy
• Chapter 7  Intermediate Grades and Middle School:  Decoding, Vocabulary, and Meaning
• Chapter 8  Responding and the Construction of Meaning
• Chapter 9  Writing and the Construction of Meaning
• Chapter 10  Helping Struggling Readers
• Chapter 11  Developing a Management System for a Comprehensive Balanced Literacy Classroom