Table of contents : Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Working With Striving Readers What Are the Language Arts? Who Are Striving Readers? What Are the Guiding Principles to Support Striving Readers? How Can Teachers Use the Language Arts to Meet the Needs of Striving Readers? Chapter 2: Listening Strategies Read-Aloud Role Play Follow Along! Directed Listening-Thinking Activity (DL-TA) What’s Your Perspective? Author’s Chair Chapter 3: Speaking Strategies What’s on Your Mind? Pass It On! Scene-sational You Are the Text ReStory Teller Chapter 4: Reading Strategies Paired Reading Buddy Reading Focused Readers’ workshop Cut Apart Text Slam Chapter 5: Writing Strategies Focused Writers’ workshop Read-Aloud Free Response Two-Column Notes Language Experience Approach (LEA) Directed Writing-Thinking Activity (DW-TA) Chapter 6: Viewing Strategies Story Mapper Cereal Book Caption Writer Going Graphic Visual Scavenger Hunt References Children’s Literature Cited Integrated Language Arts Lesson Plan Form