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| Building Your Repertoire: Critical Strategies for Reading and Writing | |
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| Interacting with the Text: Before We Were Free | |
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| Making Connections: Before We Were Free | |
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| Exploring Multiple Perspectives: Author's Note | |
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| Latin American Politics and Development | |
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| Focusing on Language and Craft: Before We Were Free | |
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| Studying an Author: "In Her Own Words-A Conversation with Julia Alvarez" | |
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| Interacting With the Text: Strategic Reading | |
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| Predicting: "All Summer in a Day" | |
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| Making Inferences: "All Summer in a Day" | |
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| Finding the Main Idea: "Hearing the Sweetest Songs" | |
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| Determining the Author's Purpose: "Hearing the Sweetest Songs" | |
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| Reflecting: Writing Activity: Making Connections | |
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| Making Connections: Story Elements | |
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| Setting: The Search for Delicious | |
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| A Wrinkle in Time | |
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| Characters: Danny the Champion of the World | |
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| Point of View: Danny the Champion of the World | |
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| Story Line and Plot: "There's No Sweet Revenge" | |
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| Plot and Theme: "Abuela Invents the Zero" | |
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| Exploring Multiple Perspectives: Getting the Big Picture | |
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| Establishing the Sequence of Events: The Titanic | |
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| Determining Cause and Effect: The Titanic | |
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| Consider the Author's Credibility: Writing Activity: Evaluating an Author's Credibility | |
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| Evaluating Eyewitness Accounts: "John Thayer: Becoming a Man Aboard the Titanic" | |
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| Comparing Different Versions: "John Thayer: Becoming a Man Aboard the Titanic" | |
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| "I Survived the Titanic" | |
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| Focusing on Language and Craft: Figurative Language | |
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| Metaphor: "Karate Kid" | |
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| Simile and Metaphor: "Skiing" | |
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| Imagery: "The Swimmer" | |
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| Word Choice: "The Base Stealer" | |
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| Writing Poetry: "Foul Shot" | |
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| Studying an Author: Lois Lowry | |
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| Writing from Experience: A Summer to Die | |
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| Writing from Photographs: The Silent Boy | |
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| Writing from Imagination: The Giver | |
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| Exploring Ideas Through Fiction: Gathering Blue | |
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| In the Author's Words: "The Remembered Gate and the Unopened Door" | |
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| Assessing Your Growing Repertoire | |
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| Using Reading and Writing Strategies: "Eagle Boy" | |
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| Using Reading and Writing Strategies continued: "Salmon Boy" | |
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| Choosing a Topic for Writing: Writing Activity: Planning Your Writing | |
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| Writing Your Assessment Story: Writing Activity: Writing and Sharing Your Draft | |
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| Revising and Evaluating Your Work: Writing Activity: Reflecting on Your Writing | |
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| Expanding Your Repertoire: Reading Persuasive Writing | |
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| Interacting with the Text: "The Perils of Indifference" | |
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| "To You" | |
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| Making Connections: Farewell to Manzanar | |
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| Exploring Multiple Perspectives: The Gold Cadillac | |
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| Focusing on Language and Craft: Writing Activity: Comparing Persuasive Language | |
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| Studying an Author: Interview with Mildred D. Taylor | |
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| Interacting With the Text: Reading for Information | |
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| Reading Graphs: Egyptian Pyramids | |
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| Reading Diagrams: Egyptian Pyramids | |
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| Taking Notes: "The Ancient Egyptians" | |
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| "Accidental Mummies" from NOVA Online | |
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| Reading an Illustration: Cat Mummies | |
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| Reading a Website: "The Kittens of Egypt" | |
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| Making Connections: Engaging with the Text | |
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| Connecting the Text to Yourself: The Egypt Game | |
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| Connecting Text to Text: The Egypt Game | |
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| Asking Questions to Make Connections: The Egypt Game | |
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| Using Your Connections for Understanding: Project Mulberry | |
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| Using Your Connections for Response: Project Mulberry | |
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| Exploring Multiple Perspectives: The Art of Argument | |
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| Author's Perspective: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten | |
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| Finding Support: "Battle of the Belts" | |
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| Structuring an Argument: Writing Activity: Supporting an Argument | |
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| Opposing Viewpoints: The Greatest: Muhammad Ali | |
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| Evaluating an Argument: Green Planet Rescue | |
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| Focusing on Language and Craft: Small Poems | |
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| Magnify the Moment: "This Is Just to Say" | |
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| "The Red Wheelbarrow" | |
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| Haiku: "The Sun Coming Up" | |
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| Opposite Images, One Poem: "Fire and Ice" | |
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| Word Choice: Writing Activity: Writing Haiku | |
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| Leaps of Imagination: Assorted Haiku and Tanka | |
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| Studying an Author: Gary Paulsen | |
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| An Author's Style: The River | |
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| Real-Life Characters: Dancing Carl | |
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| Personal Challenges: Dancing Carl | |
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| Challenges in Nature: Dogsong | |
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| Autobiographical Writing: Woodsong | |
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| Assessing Your Repertoire | |
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| Studying an Author: "Eleven" from Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories | |
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| Exploring Multiple Perspectives: Writing Activity: Planning Notes | |
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| Focusing on Language and Craft: "My Name" from The House on Mango Street | |
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| Writing to Show What You Know: Writing Activity: Personal Essay | |
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| Putting It All Together: Writing Activity: Final Reflection | |
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| Becoming an Active Reader | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |