Publisher's Synopsis
Aspiring and practicing professionals get the authoritative help they need to become highly effective teachers by applying the book's numerous research-based teaching strategies, lesson plans, and step-by-step guidance for teaching reading and writing. This practical, comprehensive text focuses on helping aspiring and practicing professionals become highly effective teachers. In turn, their students will develop as proficient readers and writers who are well on their way to becoming college and career ready. The author accomplishes this using landmark research that focuses on using highly effective practices, such as setting goals, monitoring progress, and implementing teaching strategies, and provides information on the average percentile gains achieved when these practices are instituted. Readers get step-by-step guidance for teaching reading and writing, including sample lessons for virtually every major literacy skill/strategy-30 le
