Successful Strategies for Reading in the Content Areas, Grades 3-5To be successful, students must be able to comprehend the nonfiction material they encounter in textbooks, reference materials, and testing situations. The ability to interpret nonfiction information depends on the development of several key skills and strategies:
This systematic approach to reading instruction, coupled with repeated exposure to a wide variety of nonfiction reading materials, provides a structure in which students can achieve significant growth. Each book has a CD with graphic organizers (for use with Inspiration®) and activity templates (for use with Microsoft Word®). |
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Successful Strategies for Reading in the Content Areas: Grades 3-5: Grades 3-5 Limited preview - 2007 |
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50469 Successful Strategies activity activity on page Allow students already know appendix ask students Author’s Point author’s purpose chapter titles chart cognitive maps column Concept Mapping connect create Directions double-entry journal example facts glossary graphic features graphic organizer headings and subheadings help students idea and supporting identify images important information inferences instruction key words main idea metacognitive nonfiction text On-Your-Own Question opinions Paraphrasing partner picture predictions preview the text prior knowledge proficient readers purpose for reading read the text right-there questions Set the Purpose Shell Education skills Standard 7.6 Strategy 9 students read summary sentences supporting details table of contents tadpoles teach students teachers text features Text Organizers Text Structures textbook understand Venn Diagram visualizing vocabulary write