Meet and exceed Common Core ELA expectations with time-saving guides that help you instantly shift instruction to prepare students for PARCC and Smarter Balanced Assessments. Each laminated, fold-out card includes ready-made sentence frames to build text dependent questions, strategies and teaching routines to reinforce close reading, prompts to improve writing across key text types — informational, narrative, and opinion/argument- and much more. Color-coded tabs and lamination for durable, on-the-go access.