Provides information about assessment and evaluation in fourth through eighth grade reading classes, presents a reading strategy curriculum, and features thirty-five reproducible assessment and record-keeping forms.
Presents a three-part framework for teaching students to read and comprehend nonfiction writing, and offers strategies for using that framework in the classroom and providing students with support as they learn.
Presents lessons teachers may use to help their students appreciate and write nonfiction, based on interviews the author conducted with contemporary nonfiction authors about their writing practices.
Describes a series of mini-lessons and activities designed to introduce vocabulary learning strategies to students in grades four through eight, each with photographs, samples of student work, and classroom dialogues.
