In this new edition of a bestseller, highly-acclaimed author and speaker Heidi Hayes Jacobs offers practical ideas for closing the literacy gap by teaching classic literacies (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) along with essential new literacies (digital, media, and global).

Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs is President of Curriculum Designers, Inc. She is a bestselling author and an internationally recognized expert in the fields of curriculum and instruction, having consulted on issues pertaining to curriculum mapping, dynamic instruction, and 21st-century strategic planning.

1. Forword

2. Acknowledgments

3. Meet the Author

   Introduction: Essential Strategies to Nurture the Literate Learner: Classical and Contemporary

   1. Updating Roles: Every Teacher Becomes a Contemporary Literacy Teacher
   2. Developing Three Types of Words with Classical Approaches and Digital Tools
   3. Activating Notemaking: Extraction, Reaction, and Sketchnoting
   4. Editing and Revising Classical Writing and Media Production: A Consistent Developmental Policy to Support Student Independence
   5. Face to Face in Real and Virtual Space: Speaking, Listening, and Discussion Types
   6. Tuning the Speaking/Listening Instrument: Giving Voice Lessons in Each Classroom
   7. Activating Literacy in Our Plans: Upgrading Curriculum Maps K-12

   Bibliography