Amazon.com description: Product Description: Refocusing attention on the critical importance of high-quality classroom literacy instruction, this book offers a blueprint for classrooms that accelerate literacy learning of children who find learning to read and write difficult. Recognizing that providing opportunities for children to read and write is only a good beginning this book offers supportive instruction through an explicit modeling of the thinking processes that skills readers and writers use. This balanced approach to classroom literacy lessons engages children in meaningful reading and writing activity while teachers model powerful word structure and meaning-making strategies for their students. Practical cases vividly portray the look and feel of the balanced classroom programs this text describes.