* This book comprehensively tackles head-on the challenges of teaching standards-based education effectively for the English Language Arts, with a close look at the CCSS and other state standards
* Third edition is fully updated and includes new strategies, tools, lesson plans and figures
* New topics and expanded attention on social justice, current events, critical inquiry, digital texts, multimodal texts, and arts integration
-Meets the needs of preservice teachers to be ready to address the requirements of the CCSS and other state standards
* Authors are a team of renowned scholars: Richard Beach, Amanda Haertling Thein, Allen Webb
