The basic LDC building block is a module—two to four weeks of instruction comprising a “teaching task,” standards, “mini-tasks,” and other instructional elements described below. Using LDC’s Framework and tools, teachers develop a literacy-rich task and design instruction to help students complete that task. LDC puts educators in the lead by providing a common framework upon which teachers can individually or collaboratively build literacy-saturated curricula within their content area and for their focus topics.