The pyschologist Abraham Maslow once commented, “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as if it were a nail.” Teachers who focus on particular subject areas, myself included, have been guilty in the past of teaching with only one tool: the lecture. When Nila Banton Smith (1965) and Harold Herber (1978) pioneered an emphasis on reading instruction in the content areas, teachers began to implement a more reading-oriented approach to their subject matter instruction.