The Action Literacy Teacher Guide contains a unit of learning for each of the Action Literacy stimulus books. Each unit of learning contains: a summary page with a description of the learning focus, text types, cross-curricular links an activity to set the scene and a suggested way to approach the initial reading of the book; three detailed lesson plans that form the basis of the direct and strategy instruction; details of an action-based task that employs and extends the skills and strategies taught in the lessons; a reproducible worksheet master to support the lessons or action-based task; a list of suggested assessment opportunities.