Insights: Strategies for Reading with a Purpose

Grades 6-8

Build comprehension strategies middle school students need to read increasingly complex nonfiction. Insights: Reading with a Purpose helps students to derive meaning from textbook structure and content and sharpen research skills. This strand of Insights provides the support your students need to identify, organize, analyze, and summarize key ideas in nonfiction.



•The easy-to-use Teacher Manual provides a system for teaching each reading strategy and applying it to literature or subject-area textbooks. Demonstration guides, prompts, explanations, and discussion questions are provided in clear and classroom-tested lessons.

•The
Student Book helps learners develop, practice, and apply the thinking processes essential for strategy use.


Grade 6 ~ Gold Level
Strategies for Reading with a Purpose Unit Topics:
• Analyzing Tables
• Outlining
• Reading Diagrams
• Preview-Question-Read
• Studying Textbook Chapters

Classroom Set $199.50
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Teacher Manual $60.00

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Student Book $7.50

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Grade 7 ~ Purple Level
Strategies for Reading with a Purpose Unit Topics:
• Using Books as References
• Major and Minor Ideas
• Outlining with Parallel Structure
• Analyzing Facts and Opinions
• Summarizing Graphs and Charts

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Teacher Manual $60.00
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Student Book $7.50
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Grade 8 ~ Silver Level
Strategies for Reading with a Purpose Unit Topics:
• Locating Supporting Facts
• Using Research Aids
• Note Taking in Outline Form
• Summarizing
• Making Analogies

Classroom Set $199.50
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Teacher Manual $60.00
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Student Book $7.50
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