This accessible book will help elementary school teachers improve literacy instruction inside or outside the Common Core environment. The authors address teachers instructional needs by introducing key concepts from current trends in literacy educationfrom high-level standards to the use of 21st-century literacies. Readers then follow teachers as they successfully implement the curriculum they developed to promote high-level thinking and engagement with disciplinary content. The text focuses on three disciplinary literacy units of instruction: a science unit in a 2nd-grade classroom, a social...