"With The Reading Minilessons Book, engage students in inquiry that leads to the discovery and understanding of a general principle they can apply to their own independent reading. Principles are based on the fifth-grade behaviors and understandings in the one-of-a-kind, market-leading The Literacy Continuum. The minilessons in this book serve as a guide to a meaningful, systematic approach to literacy learning across multiple instructional contexts-interactive read-aloud, shared reading, guided reading, and book clubs-and your students' own reading and writing. These minilessons form the "glue" that connects literacy learning, makes it explicit, and turns it over to students to apply independently. Put reading minilessons into action and make learning visible for every child, every day".