A guide for responsive literacy teaching. Provides a concise description of a coherent literacy system in which all instructional contexts are reciprocally connected to improove student outcomes. Also provides an important look at reading, writing, talking, and word study, while succinctly describing research-based instructional practices for high-impact literacy teaching. Contents: A Design for Responsive Literacy Teaching -- The Reading Process -- The Writing Process -- The Literacy Continuum -- Supporting English Learners -- A Multi-Text Approach -- Ten Texts Characteristics -- Text Sets -- Classroom Libraries -- Leveled Texts -- Reading -- Interactive Read-Aloud -- Shared Reading -- Guided Reading -- Independent Reading and Conferring -- Book Clubs -- Readers' Workshop -- Book Talks, Minilessons, and Group Share -- Talking About Reading -- Turn and Talk -- Conferring -- Discussing Texts in Book Clubs -- Writing About Reading -- Functional Writing -- Narrative Wiriting --.