Starting Out presents feasible classroom practices for teaching middle and high school students who struggle as readers and writers.

Respected authors David Moore and Kathleen Hinchman provide sound advice on how to address the fundamentals of teaching adolescents. This affordable, long-awaited text is a practical, down-to-earth guide written in easy-to-read prose. Ideal for today's busy teachers, it emphasizes the important preliminary steps to take during the first few days and weeks of class. In an era of teacher shortages, this text is a welcome addition and a must-have for people entering the profession with abbreviated preparation and who are, for the first time, encountering adolescents who struggle with literacy.