* Strategically organize text sets.
* "Read" a scene to practice main idea and supporting details.
* Don't ask, "Am I teaching enough informational text?". Instead ask, "What informational texts are worth reading?" Think broadly- brochures, recipes, manuals, autobiographies, primary source documents.
* Choose an anchor text. "In the universe of all the rich resources students will read in a given unit, the anchor text is like the sun: all the other articles, poems, maps, charts, and other forms of text circle around this one text."
* When analyzing text, think about checking released test items to see if the text you have chosen helps meet the standards.
* Saturate students with opportunities to build their knowledge about topics.
* "Reading for pleasure is key for building lifelong readers and enables developing readers to make choices about their own reading likes and dislikes as they construct their own reading identities."
* "Content area teachers must also become literacy teachers within their discipline."
* It is ok to let a great text guide your lesson planning.
* "Deeper learning comes from great questions, not great answers."
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