Setting high academic expectations -- Planning that ensures academic achievement -- Structuring and delivering your lessons -- Engaging students in your lessons -- Creating a strong classroom culture -- Setting and maintaining high behavioral expectations -- Building character and trust -- Improving your pacing: additional techniques for creating a positive rhythm in the classroom -- Challenging students to think critically: additional techniques for questioning and responding to students -- How all teachers can (and must) be reading teachers -- The fundamentals: teaching decoding, vocabulary, development, and fluency -- Comprehension: teaching students to understand what they read.