<p style="margin:0px">Created specifically for middle school teachers, Pam Allyn’s dynamic Core Ready Program provides a complete toolkit for navigating and thriving with the core standards. In it teachers see clearly how to take complex concepts of the literacy standards and turn them into practical, specific, everyday instruction. The series is organized around the author’s Four Doors to the Core:</p><ul><li><div style="margin:0px"><i>The Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique</i></div></li><li><div style="margin:0px"><i>The Shape of Story: Contemporary and Classical</i> </div></li><li><div style="margin:0px"><i>The Road to Knowledge: Information and Research</i> </div></li><li><div style="margin:0px"><i>The Power to Persuade: Opinion and Argument</i> </div></li></ul><p style="margin:0px"></p><p style="margin:0px">Each book in the series includes powerful reading, writing, speaking, and listening sets; assessment rubrics; support for ELLs and diverse learners; and tips for doing high tech variations for literacy instruction for grades 6, 7, and 8. </p>