In this article, we describe a text analysis proto- col, guide, or checklist, the Guide to Analyze Texts for Elementary Students (GATES), which teachers can use to examine complex texts for the purpose of determining instructional obstacles and affordances as part of standards-based reading instruction planning.

Self-Regulated Strategy Development for writing can help everyone: teachers and students, with and without learning disabilities.

Outside of education, people view the shifts and swings of instruction with bemusement, if they do not have school-age children, or with alarm, if they do. In reading, we have swung from a whole word methodology to phonics to direct instruction to whole language, with various stops along the way, over the course of my lifetime.