Helping students master a range of individual words is a vital part of effective vocabulary instruction. Describing a program for teaching individual words in the K-8 classroom, this book combines the latest research with vivid illustrations from real classrooms.

'Literacy for Real' is a hands-on guide to meaningful reading across the content areas of math, science, and social studies in grades 6-12.

The book presents multiple approaches to teaching poetry at the middle and early high school levels that aim to 1) engage students in performative acts of poetry writing and analysis; 2) introduce students to the basic formal elements of contemporary and