Description: "Literacy is among the most integral yet difficult skills to teach and assess. Effective teaching strategies supported by evidence-based research are increasingly vital to combat low literacy rates, to support teachers across all levels of experience, and to ensure literacy programs accomplish learning objectives in a healthy and psychologically safe learning culture. In Better Together: Blending the Science of Reading and Professional Learning Communities at Work, authors George Georgiou and Greg Kushnir highlight effective strategies pulled from the Science of Reading literature, demonstrate these strategies through illustrative examples, and create a framework by which instructors may implement these strategies when faced with resistance. They also furnish numerous lesson plan templates, which model how to employ these strategies when teaching the National Reading Panel's five pillars of literacy instruction. By drawing upon the influence of these examples and templates, instructors will better identify strategies that address their classroom's needs most effectively and will better implement those strategies to improve their literacy instruction and assessment"--
