Covers a variety of instructional methods to help struggling and culturally diverse students to read.

Creating classrooms that work -- Creating enthusiastic, independent readers -- Building the literacy foundation -- Fostering fluency -- Teaching phonics and spelling patterns -- Building vivid, vital, and valuable vocabularies -- Developing thoughtful comprehenders -- Developing ready, willing, and able writers -- Reading and writing across the curriculum -- Assessment -- Differentiating instruction for diverse learners -- Inside classrooms that work.