Making the Intangible Tangible: Igniting a Passion with a Quarterly Plan

Let’s be honest. Most people want a plan to follow—a road map of sorts. I have tried to make the case throughout this book that the affective elements of reading instruction are generally disregarded in most curricular initiatives. The strategies mentioned here are not likely to show up in a packaged program, a basal series, or even in some set of state, provincial, or national standards. It’s not always that people don’t want to address the issue; it’s more often that they don’t know they need to—or they don’t know how.