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Every school, district, instructional team, or teacher will pick up Your Literacy Standards Companion and have different ideas about how to use it as a tool. And, of course, there is no one right way to use it. Here are some possible ways, which you should adapt, adopt, or avoid as you see fit:

 Provide all teachers on a grade-level team or school with a copy to establish a common text to work from throughout their planning and instructional design work.

 Use it in tandem with the K–2 version by Sharon Taberski to dig into the standards in a whole-school initiative.

 Use it along with the K–2, 6–8, and 9–12 volumes for district-level planning and professional development work.

 Bring your Companion to all meetings for quick reference or planning with colleagues in your school or on your grade-level team.

 Use your Companion to aid in the transition from what you were doing to what you will be doing, treating the planning pages that accompany each standard as a place to note what you do or which standard corresponds with one of your district or state standards you are trying to adapt to the Common Core.

 Use your Companion as a resource for revisiting your curriculum plans in Year 2 (or beyond!) of implementing the standards to help you develop, refine, and deepen instruction.

 Begin or end meetings with a brief but carefully planned sample lesson based on a teaching idea in this book. Ask one or more colleagues in the school to present at the next meeting on how it might apply to other grade levels.

 Use the Companion in conjunction with your professional learning community to add further cohesion and consistency between all your ideas and plans.