Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Foreword, Gholnecsar (Gholdy) E. Muhammad -- I. Situating Best Practices: Comprehensive and Culturally, Responsive Literacy Instruction -- 1. Current Issues and Best Practices in Literacy Instruction, P. David Pearson, Christina L. Madda, & Taffy E. Raphael -- 2. Best Practices to Promote Social Justice and Equity in the Literacy Classroom, Ernest Morrell -- 3. Best Practices for Motivating Students to Read, Ana Taboada Barber & John T. Guthrie -- II. Best Practices throughout the Grades -- 4. Best Practices in Early Literacy, Lesley Mandel Morrow, Susan Dougherty, & Diane Tracey -- 5. Best Practices for Literacy in the Intermediate and Middle Grades, Heather Kenyon Casey -- 6. Best Practices for Literacy in High School, Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey -- 7. Best Practices for Integrating Children's Literature into the Life of the Classroom, Kathy G. Short -- 8. Best Practices for Organizing and Differentiating for Equitable Literacy Instruction, D. Ray Reutzel & Parker C. Fawson -- III. Evidence-Based Practices for Literacy Teaching and Learning -- 9. Best Practices for Developing Phonological Awareness, Phonics, and Word Study to Support Fluent Reading, Donald R. Bear -- 10. Best Practices in Fluency Instruction, Melanie Kuhn, Timothy Rasinski, & Chase Young -- 11. Best Practices in Vocabulary Instruction, Kathy Ganske -- 12. Best Practices for Developing Comprehension across Genres, Nell K. Duke & Nicole M. Martin -- 13. Best Practices in Teaching Writers, Kelly Gallagher & Penny Kittle -- 14. Best Practices in Reading Nonfiction: Understanding the Possibilities and Problems, Robert Probst & Kylene Beers -- 15. Best Practices in Digital Literacy, Troy Hicks -- IV. Best Practices to Meet Targeted Needs -- 16. Best Practices to Support the Literacy Development of Bilingual Learners, Ofelia García & Claudia Cervantes-Soon -- 17. Best Practices to Change the Trajectory of Students Experiencing Reading Difficulties, Victoria J. Risko & Doris Walker-Dalhouse -- 18. Best Practices to Support Achieving Yet "Invisible" Literacy Learners, Diane Lapp, Toni Faddis, & Alejandro Gonzalez Ojeda -- 19. Best Practices in Literacy Assessment, Nancy Frey, Alejandro Gonzalez Ojeda, & Douglas Fisher -- V. Sustaining Best Practices: The Importance of Building Connections -- 20. Best Practices Linking Professional Learning, Literacy Coaching, and Equity, Sharon Walpole, Faith Muirhead, & Jaime True Daley -- 21. Best Practices for Home, School, and Community Partnerships: Collaborating for Social Justice and Equity, Patricia A. Edwards & Jacquelyn S. Sweeney -- Epilogue. Literacy Practicing: Repositioning Teachers as Cultural Workers and Ecopedagogues toward Creating Learning Cultures, Robert J. Tierney & P. David Pearson -- Afterword. Teaching Literacy in the Dystopia of Now: A Call to Action, Cornelius Minor -- Index -- .