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Interactive writing is a powerful practice because it taps into reading and writing and shows children how literacy learning in one area supports another. With this remarkable book, Reading Recovery expert C.C. Bates breaks new ground by showing teachers how to make the link to reading far stronger for students throughout the school day. Teachers discover how to:

• Set up a literacy-rich environment and manage materials
• Engage in interactive writing in whole-group and small-group settings
• Use formative assessments to make in-the-moment decisions
• Teach concepts about print, alphabetic understanding, how words work, and fluency
• Integrate interactive writing across the content areas

Finally, a book on phonics instruction that helps teachers know how to fix up common weaknesses in their curriculum and materials. Expert Wiley Blevins has researched packaged programs, workshop settings, and phonics in a successful literacy classroom, and provides here dozens of practical ideas to make teaching and learning higher impact. Learn to:

• Apply the latest scientific research on how we learn to read
• Harness the power of the 7 foundations of strong phonics instruction
• Tweak your scope and sequence so it contains built-in review and repetition
• Ensure that 50% of your daily phonics lessons are devoted to meaningful reading and writing
• and so much more! Meaningful Phonics and Word Study will help you implement explicit, systematic phonics—and make it engaging, active, and thought-provoking.

Jan Hasbrouck, Ph.D. and Deborah Glaser, Ed.D. have written an accessible and thoughtful resource to help teachers understand the complex, essential, and often misunderstood skill of reading fluency. The authors:

• Define the complex skill of reading fluency
• Present an overview of current research
• Offer practical guidance for assessing and developing students’ fluency
• Include specific skill-development activities In the companion Professional Learning Guide for Leaders, classroom teachers, specialists, and instructional leaders can go deeper into professional study using the tools provided.

Instruction and assessment ought to be like two peas in a pod. In this practical guide, Peter Afflerbach, a foremost authority on developing effective assessments, teams up with literacy expert Adria Klein to show teachers how to become fluent in meaningful assessment routines. Highlights include:

• Purposeful formative assessment, self-assessment, and student learning goals
• Using tools that reveal reliable, relatable insights
• Knowing readers as people in order to know instruction and engage
• Designing and mining daily routines to yield data
• Learning to analyze information, and sharing assessment results thoughtfully