1. Introduction - A Design Opportunity - The Need for Evidence-Based Knowledge Building - The Role of Text Sets - Deciding to Center Students 2. Middle School Students and Their Teachers - What Do We Want Middle School Students to Know and Be Able to Do? - Demographics and Achievement - Defining Adolescent Readers - Serving Middle School Teachers - Positioning Curriculum 3. Feasible Differentiation in Middle School - Early Leaders in Differentiation - Persistent Questions - So, Is Differentiation Feasible and Effective? - The Need for a Change - Curriculum in the Mix 4. Choosing Anchor Texts and Building Text Sets - Reading Comprehension and Text Representation - Building Background Knowledge through Quad Text Sets - Selecting Anchor Texts - Text Complexity - Quantitative Complexity - Qualitative Complexity - Readers and Tasks - Quad Texts in Action - Try It Yourself! 5. Planning for Equity - Achievement Gap - Culturally and Linguistically Sustaining Pedagogy - Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework - CRSE Guidance for ELA Instructional Solutions - Culturally Responsive Curriculum Scorecard - Using Outside Readers - Beyond a Single Story - Try It Yourself! 6. Routines for Knowledge Building - Starting with Evidence - Addressing Standards - Identifying Affordances for Teaching with Text - Instructional Routines for Building Topic and Vocabulary Knowledge - Opportunities for Differentiation - Try It Yourself! 7. Routines for Reading - Starting with Evidence - Addressing Standards - Identifying Affordances for Teaching with Text - Creating a Robust Sequence of Steps in a Lesson - Instructional Routines for Reading the Anchor Text - Instructional Routines for Reading Text Sets - Building Challenge over Time - Opportunities for Differentiation - Try It Yourself! 8.

Routines for Discussion - Starting with Evidence - Addressing Standards - Identifying Affordances for Teaching with Text - Creating a Robust Sequence of Steps in a Lesson - Instructional Routines for Targeted Discussions - Building Challenge over Time - Opportunities for Differentiation - Try It Yourself! 9. Routines for Grammar and Language - Starting with Evidence - Addressing Standards - Identifying Affordances for Teaching with Text - Creating a Robust Sequence of Steps in a Lesson - Instructional Routines for Grammar and Language - Building Challenge over Time - Opportunities for Differentiation - Try It Yourself! 10. Routines for Writing - Starting with Evidence - Addressing Standards - Creating a Robust Sequence of Steps in a Lesson - Instructional Routines for Teaching Writing - Modeling the Writing Process - Guiding Students to Revise - Modeling the Revision - Feedback - Building Challenge over Time - Opportunities for Differentiation - Try It Yourself! - 11. Routines for Research - Starting with Evidence - Addressing Standards - Creating a Robust Sequence of Steps in a Lesson - Instructional Routines for Research - Instructional Routines for Presenting Information - Building Challenge over Time - Opportunities for Differentiation - Try It Yourself! 12. Routines for Assessment - Starting with Evidence - Addressing Standards - Model-Practice-Assess Assessment Series - Try It Yourself! - Comprehension Assessment - Try It Yourself! - Culminating Tasks - Try It Yourself! 13. Changing the Status Quo in Middle School - Try It Yourself! References Index.