Akhavan, Nancy L

Provides fifty lessons on teaching nonfiction, including short informational text to use with the lessons, practice activities, and more.

Describes the process by which the staff at Lee Richmond School in California went about improving the quality of education being provided to students through a process that included promoting reading and writing achievement through authentic literacy experiences.

Offers teachers effective tools, including graphic organizers, concept maps, textbook tamers, and read/think/review protocols, to help them teach both content and reading and writing strategies.

Offers teachers practical strategies for creating language workshops in linguistically diverse classrooms, explaining the best ways to teach grammar, vocabulary, and phonics to students who speak different languages.