The Game Plan is the first professional book that gives secondary administrators literacy coaches and other instructional leaders a step by step blueprint for implementing the Common Core Literacy Standards for History Social Studies Science and the Technical Subjects and other college and career readiness standards The book provides principals district supervisors instructional coaches and other leaders with a coherent realistic plan to build a school wide culture of literacy instruction data use and PLC based cycles of reflection planning and action This multi year plan is built on a continuous cycle of improvement philosophy and is modular in nature allowing leaders to rearrange substitute and modify the plan to meet the needs of any secondary school Organized in two parts the first section of The Game Plan lays out a semester by semester flexible configuration for introducing implementing and supporting the literacy standards over the course of six full school years this section also includes detailed guidelines for creating a comprehensive assessment plan to gather analyze and act on school data The second section includes instructional tools and strategies for reading writing vocabulary and other aspects of the literacy standards that teachers in all subject areas can use