The document discusses best practices for teaching reading. It recommends developing readers who are passionate, inquisitive, strategic, confident, flexible, efficient, enduring, open-minded, and thoughtful. It emphasizes the importance of time, text, talk, task, and teach in reading instruction. Effective reading instruction includes mini-lessons, reading application, and sharing. Teachers should establish routines, use posters, and choose a curriculum approach such as focusing on one text at a time or using broad units of study. Planning for daily instruction includes determining student needs, selecting strategies, choosing texts, and assessing understanding.