This book provides 3rd through 12th grade teachers with more than 50 teacher-tested tools and techniques for helping their students read independently and critically. It offers practical and effective ways for teachers to help students develop the critical reading habits that open up new ways of understanding and contributing to their worlds.

1. Growing academic language : building foundations for academic language -- 2. Tools for developing academic language -- 3. Tools for students' uses of higher-order thinking while reading -- 4. Tools for supporting literary analysis -- 5. Tools for reading informational texts -- 6. Total participation techniques and tools for framing text-based peer interactions -- 7. A tool for teaching students how to respond to constructed response prompts -- 8. Conclusion : growing thinkers, readers, and writers.