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In the Introduction, the authors open this book by sharing our personal stories—how we have come to this work individually and together.

This excerpt explains why it is important to create a responsive plan for learning. 

Use these strategies from Visible Learning for Literacy, Grades K-12, to inform how you provide feedback to students in various situations.

Use these ideas for indpendent disciplinary reading from Disciplinary Literacy in Action to inspire a schoolwide culture of independent reading.

Use this sample assessment from Teaching Literacy in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades 6-12, to test students’ understanding of literary devices.

In this lesson from Smuggling Writing students learn to gather information from video and audio through structured note taking and collaborative discussion.

Taken from Grammar Keepers these two-page lesson plans on they're, their, and there will help your students learn once and for all how to avoid misusing these homonyms.

This lesson from Teaching the Social Skills of Academic Interaction, Grades 4-12, shows how to explicitly teach active listening skills, crucial for classroom and life interactions. 

The first part of this lesson from The Common Core Companion Booster Lessons, Grades K-2, explores reading mentor texts for parts of a letter; the second part shows how to use interactive writing to inform about and present knowledge. 

Use this lesson from The Common Core Companion Booster Lessons, Grades 3-5, to explain to students how an author uses reasons and evidence in informational text.

This lesson from 30-Big Idea Lessons for Small Groups helps students practice summarizing, analyzing, illustrations, and meaning, as well as discussing biases.

In this lesson from Text Structures from the Masters, students use the mentor text A Modern Day Devil Baby by Jane Addams to create their own piece on why text goes viral.