Highly effective educators may have their own styles, but many use some of the same teaching strategies. The McREL (Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning) organization put 30 years of research through a meta-analysis and identified nine categories of instructional strategies that have a high probability of improving student achievement. Highly effective teachers foster a cooperative classroom learning environment; require homework and practice; reinforce effort and provide recognition; set goals and provide feedback; activate prior knowledge, and incorporate nonlinguistic representations. They also instruct students to identify similarities and differences, summarize and take notes, and generate and test hypotheses. The identification of these common strategies is further validation for the effectiveness of the Learning A–Z resources. We built these strategies into our Internet-delivered, printable lesson plans for Reading A-Z, Writing A–Z, and Science A–Z.