Literacy experts explain how to: Choose the right texts for your students and identify initial teaching points for a close reading; Explain and model close reading to students and conduct close reading conversations; Use sentence frames and other strategies to support academic language use and content analysis; Align close reading with other classroom literacies, including writing, speaking, and listening; and Use formative assessment data gleaned during and after instruction to modify and support close reading instruction. Follow the advice in this book to ensure all students—regardless of linguistic, cultural, or academic background—have the tools they need to connect with and learn from both literary and informational texts across the academic disciplines.