With the advent of the Common Core State Standards and high expectations with regard to content literacy, some secondary teachers are scrambling for what to do and how to do it. This book provides an accessible plan for implementing content literacy and offers 20 research-based literacy strategies designed to help students meet those standards and become expert readers.

Overview of key ideas and details. Read-decide-explain -- Show you know -- Prove it -- Read like a detective -- Question like an investigative reporter -- Think like a private investigator -- Snapshot summary -- Identify-analyze-summarize -- What-how-why (individuals) -- What-how-why (events) -- What-how-why (ideas) -- Overview of craft and structure. Quick-reach vocabulary toolkit -- Weigh the words -- Identify-analyze-relate (problem-solution) -- Identify-analyze-relate (cause-effect) -- Purpose-content-style -- Integration of knowledge and ideas. Navigate-integrate-evaluate -- Delineate-evaluate-explain -- Analyze-compare-write -- Range of reading and text complexity. Literacy rehearsal.