Innovative ways to establish comprehensive literacy instruction in your classroom and ensure that all students receive support in becoming competent, confident readers. The book provides research; practical methods; detailed strategies; and resources for read-alouds, shared, guided, and independent reading. Common literacy dilemmas are outlined with solutions for each. Valuable appendices include graphic organizers to support strategy lessons, suggestions of titles for building classroom libraries, and web sites and professional resources that support the teaching of reading.