Answers your most urgent questions around how to implement close reading within the literacy block. Delivers: eight three-week units on close reading to immediately drop in to the curriculum and achieve that so-essential connectedness and coherence. There are 32 lessons in all, based on readily available complex picture books and organized by eight learning pathways for approaching important themes in literature and information. You can get started right away, with the help of: Short nonfiction articles to kick off each unit and get kids’ minds percolating; Assessment tasks, rubrics, planning templates, booklists, and more to make close reading instruction easy, efficient, and effective; Links to 20+ video segments showing close reading and follow-up lessons in action; Page-by-page text-dependent questions for every picture book; Student work providing exemplars for writing about reading; and 10 Planning Steps for developing new units of study.