• Building Community: Enhancing classroom collaboration
• Fostering Fundamentals: Developing language and literacy
• Making Meaning: Grounding learning in students' lives
• Assisting Understanding: Challenging students' thinking
• Demonstrating Knowledge: Engaging students in conversation

Providing key indicators for each standard along with the theoretical rationale and "best practice" strategies, the book offers teachers invaluable guidance for enhancing language, literacy, thinking, and content learning across the curricula. It also provides advice on creating effective classroom groupings for differentiating lessons and activities and includes extensive examples from real-life classrooms.