Successful Strategies for Reading in the Content AreasShell Education Improve content-area reading with a variety of strategies and a wealth of information to help readers in Grades 6-12 improve their comprehension of nonfiction text. This book includes essential reading skills and strategies grouped into 8 categories including: Monitor Comprehension, Activate and Connect, Infer Meaning, Ask Questions, Determine Importance, Visualize, Summarize and Synthesize, and Developing Vocabulary. All of the skills and strategies are covered by providing practical teaching guidelines as well as motivating learner activities. The included Resource CD features graphic organizers and activities pages that can be reproduced and modified. 280pp. + Resource CD |
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Activate and Connect activity page already know answer Author's Point author's purpose chapter titles chart content areas create Developing Vocabulary Directions Edward Fry example facts Give students graphic features graphic organizer guiding questions headings and subheadings help students Idea and Supporting images instruction ION Determine Importance key words Komodo dragons Komodo Island left column main idea metacognitive movie nonfiction book nonfiction text numbers opinion paragraph paraphrase partner PAS STRATEGIES PASSPORT STRATEGIES phrases point of view predictions preview the text prior knowledge purpose for reading read the text Reading activity Set the Purpose SKILLS Determine Importance SKILLS ION Determine SKILLS Monitor Comprehension SKILLS PASSPORT ION Standards 7.3 steps sticky notes STRATEGIES AND SKILLS Strategy 9 Students need Summarize and Synthesize summary sentences supporting details teach students teachers technique Text Coding text features text organizers Text Structures Tic-Tac-Toe topic or concept topic sentence understand Visualize vocabulary words