"Teaching literacy to students of diverse backgrounds, capabilities, and learning needs poses a substantial challenge to teachers. How can a teacher ensure all students are maintaining pace at the reading levels expected for their grade? What should be done for students who demonstrate difficulty with the expected reading level? In Raising Up Readers: Twenty-Five Scaffolding Strategies to Help Students Access Challenging Text, Jennifer Throndsen offers a series of teaching strategies that encourage grade-level reading for all students while equipping the teacher with flexible approaches to address different students' needs more effectively. These strategies, divided across three stages of before, during, and after reading, provide a reliable structure within which the teacher may operate and experiment with different tactics to help all students work through texts appropriate for the anticipated growth of their grade level. By employing the strategies of Raising Up Readers, teachers can nurture the continued progressive development of all students toward a common goal of literacy achievement"--