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.
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.
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
Teacher Manual - $60.00
Student Book- $9.00
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
Teacher Manual - $60.00
Student Book - $9.00
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
Teacher Manual - $60.00
Student Book- $9.00
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
Teacher Manual$60.00
Student Book- $9.00
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
Teacher Manual- $60.00
Student Book - $9.00
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