Valerie Ellery, author of the bestselling Creating Strategic Readers, teams up with secondary educator Jennifer Rosenboom to help you sustain, motivate, and engage older learners. Here you’ll find a curriculum, assessment, and instruction framework focused on aligning literacy and content learning for middle and high school students.
 
Organized to make planning and teaching both easy and effective, the chapters offer:
 
	
Highly effective strategies and techniques for teaching word study, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills
	
Embedded strategy assessments to check for understanding and collect evidence of student learning
	
Teacher talk to help students think strategically
	
Ideas to engage and motivate adolescent learners
	
Vignettes to help you envision what a technique might look like when used in your content area
	
Key terms and guiding questions to focus your reading, study, and conversation