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Insights: Reading as Thinking Content Area Strategies Grades 3-8
 


Teach the thinking strategies students need during reading

Focus on the unique strategies required for content area reading. Insights: Content Area Strategies improves student performance in all curricular areas including math, science, and social studies.

Insights: Content Area Strategies book covers  
 


Grades 3-5: Content Area Strategies
Improve student comprehension of nonfiction texts. Insights: Content Area Strategies units focus on strategies students need to read and gather information from textbooks and other expository writing. Students analyze new word meanings, complex ideas, graphics, and common text structures such as compare-contrast, hypothesis-proof, and cause-and-effect.

Grades 6-8: Strategies for Reading Nonfiction
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.


 
 

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Components:


Classroom Sets include 1 Teacher Manual and 30 Student Books — at a savings of 30%!

Student Books contain classroom-tested activities carefully sequenced to assure that all students attain the objectives of the unit.

Teacher Manuals provide research-validated “best-practice” instructional strategies to support both veteran and novice teachers.


 
Pricing Overview
Classroom Set
Student Book
Teacher Manual
$220.00
$9.00
$60.00



 
Additional Resources
Research Validation (128 KB pdf)
Insights Brochure - Coming Soon!

 
 


 
 
Detailed Pricing
Grade 3 cover
Grade 3 ~ Orange Level

Content Area Strategies Unit Topics:
• Understanding Possessive Nouns
• Alphabetical Order
• Using a Dictionary
• Using Contractions
• Prefixes and Suffixes
• Using the Parts of a Book
• Reading Maps and Diagrams
• Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms


Classroom Set - $220.00
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Teacher Manual - $60.00
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Student Book - $9.00
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Grade 4 cover
Grade 4 ~ Blue Level

Content Area Strategies Unit Topics:
• Using Time Lines
• Reading Charts
• Reading Maps and Globes
• Locating Information in a Book
• Using the Dictionary to Find the Meaning of Words in Context
• Outlining Main Ideas and Details
• Linking Visual Diagrams to Text


Classroom Set - $220.00
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Teacher Manual - $60.00
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Student Book - $9.00
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Grade 5 cover
Grade 5 ~ Tan Level

Content Area Strategies Unit Topics:
• How to Locate Information
• Word Structures
• Multiple Meanings and Word Origins
• Distinguishing Between News and Propaganda
• Using Graphs


Classroom Set - $220.00
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Teacher Manual
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Student Book - $9.00
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Grade 6 cover
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 - $220.00
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Teacher Manual $60.00
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Student Book - $9.00
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Grade 7 cover
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


Classroom Set - $220.00
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Teacher Manual - $60.00
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Student Book - $9.00
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Grade 8 cover 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


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