Amazon.com description: Product Description: Ideal for any grade 4-12 teacher or literacy coach looking to integrate an independent reading program, or improve the one that s already in place, this new book is an in depth analysis of Lanier s successful program, "Indy 500." In it the authors show you the steps necessary to create and integrate a program to benefit students or any language arts program, and to meet standards requirements. Using the Indy 500 program as a model, the authors describe how to create an original independent reading program, assess student progress, and integrate it into standards-based language arts programs.