The following pages highlight a number of essential reading practices that should find a regular place in your classroom space. These practices can be explored in general and more specific terms and can be integrated into a number of popular literacy programs. Keep in mind that these practices offer structures for engaging students in reading by focusing on the why and the how, but they leave open the 'what' based on who readers are and what readers are working on. It's also important to remember that these practices should be integrated with other practices to provide spaces for students to talk about, write about, and engage literacies more broadly.