As educators we sit through endless sessions where presenters tell us what to expect in a high-quality literacy classroom.  We hear how as teachers we need to recognize that each student in our room develops on an individual time line and we must structure our day so that it is well-planned and executed to support students’ differences.  Of course this goal is to differentiate instruction.  We hear how we must move through the literacy block with modeling and thinking aloud to coaching students as they read and write.  We hear a lot of “talk” about what we need to do,...