<p><strong><em>Your resource for best texts and best practices!<br /></em></strong>Kathy Barclay and Laura Stewart have written the book that teachers like you have been pleading for—a resource that delivers the “what I need to know ” to engage kids in a significant amount of informational text reading experiences. </p><p>No filler, no lofty ideals about college and career readiness, but instead, the information on how to find lesson-worthy texts and create developmentally appropriate instructional plans that truly help young readers comprehend grade-level texts. What you’ll love most:</p><ul> <li>The how-to’s on selecting informational texts </li> <li>High-impact comprehension strategies </li> <li>Model text lessons and lesson plan templates </li> <li>An annotated list of 449 informational texts </li></ul>