The author cuts through the pressurized, strategy-overloaded, fluency-crazed atmosphere surrounding reading instruction to lay out the reading and writing workshop practices that are most effective in developing readers in the primary grades. She shares the daily how-tos needed to sustain a literacy block that engages children in authentic reading…

This series of four videotapes and a viewing guide is designed to complement the book "Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding." Its author/educators invite teachers to help their students read for deeper meaning and insight, employing a group of research-based strategies that proficient readers use to…