Best Practices in Literacy Instruction Book

	Introduction	1
1	Principles of Best Practice: Finding the Common Ground	9
2	Toward a More Complex View of Balance in the Literacy Curriculum	23
3	Current Practices in Early Literacy Development	43
4	What Research Says about Teaching Phonics	65
5	Best Practices in Vocabulary Instruction: What Effective Teachers Do	87
6	Best Practices in Comprehension Instruction	111
7	Fluency in the Classroom: Strategies for Whole-Class and Group Work	127
8	Building a Sound Writing Program	143
9	Material Matters: Using Children's Literature to Charm Readers (or Why Harry Potter and the Princess Diaries Matter)	167
10	Adolescent Literacy	187
11	Best Practices in Literacy Assessment	201
12	Organizing Effective Literacy Instruction: Grouping Strategies and Instructional Routines	241
13	See It Change: A Primer on the Basal Reader	269
14	Strategies for Literacy Development for Students with Disabilities	287
15	Effective Use of Technology in Literacy Instruction	307
16	Achieving Best Practices in Literacy Instruction	333
	Index	347