Successful Strategies for Reading in the Content AreasTo 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 Shell Education Limited preview - 2007 |
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50467 Successful Strategies Activate and Connect Ask Questions asks students Author's Point blue whale brainstorm butterflies chart paper classroom clue words content-area Dinosaurs Directions dogs Draw a picture Education 50467 Successful example favorite Five Ws graphic organizer gray whale help students Idea and Supporting instruction ION Determine Importance K-2 Standards 5.2 KWL chart look main idea metacognitive modeling nonfiction book Nonfiction Mini-Book nonfiction text nursery rhyme opinion PAS STRATEGIES PASSPORT STRATEGIES penguins Point of View Pre-K Standards 5.3 predictions prior knowledge Puppy read aloud reading comprehension strategies sentence Set the Purpose Shell Education 50467 SKILLS Determine Importance SKILLS ION Determine SKILLS Monitor Comprehension SKILLS PASSPORT Standards 5.1 story STRATEGIES AND SKILLS students need Summarize and Synthesize teacher and students teacher asks teacher reads teacher writes teaching template Text Organizers Text Structures think aloud Venn diagram Visualize Word Bank written young students