* Provides concrete instructions and examples of interdisciplinary unit organization as scaffolding for beginning teachers.
* Takes a practical lesson-planning approach, and walks readers through the integration of disciplinary standards from content area standard selection to analyzing student data to inform nuanced disciplinary instruction.
* Comes with an assessment guide so that university instructors of content-area literacy courses can easily assign and assess student work so they can spend more time giving individualized feedback.
* Features reproducible resources and two sample interdisciplinary units, on infusing literacy with social studies and science, and a on incorporating math, science, and literacy.
