Brunner hits another home run in helping teachers and administrators with literacy strategies from early readers through high school. Doing What Works: Literacy Strategies for the Next Level is organized for use as a desk resource, a faculty book study, or a cover-to-cover read for novices and experts alike. The easy-to-understand explanations give the reader research-based and ready-to-use strategies to help students improve reading skills. The references to the Common Core State Standards and the list of technology resources complement the strategies exceptionally well. This book is a must have for any educator looking to improve student reading!

Dave Steward, principal Monett High School, and president, Missouri Association of Secondary School Principals

This book provides practical and effective strategies designed to enhance, create an understanding for and support literacy skills. This step-by-step approach is user friendly and can be implemented by parents, staff and administrators to help students meet the increased needs required by the Common Core Standards. The direct instruction about why information is important is a wonderful approach that will help students prepare to read for deeper meaning.

Peter Olson, principal, Princeton High School, and former president, Minnesota Association Secondary School Principals

Judy Brunner’s new book is a great resource for anyone interested in promoting literacy! Judy provides practical, effective, and researched based strategies that will appeal to pre-service or practicing educators at all levels. Even parents can use this easy to read book. The book includes over eighty different strategies that have been organized into three chapters on vocabulary, comprehension, and note taking. For each strategy, Judy explains why to use the strategy, which types of text the strategy will work with, grade level adaptations, a step-by-step process, suggestions for questions at most levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, benefits, considerations, suggestions for differentiation, and recommendations for diversifying the strategy through the use of technology. Judy also highlights terms in each strategy description that are related to the Common Core State Standards. This book is a winner, and I believe it will help you improve the reading proficiency of your students. I highly recommend it!

Anthony Pieper, President, Iowa Reading Association, Beaman, IA