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Reading Strategies
Grades 3-8
Target specific reading strategies. The perfect way to provide students with extra practice on essential reading strategies: finding main ideas, making inferences, comparing and contrasting, using context clues, and many more.
• Consumable, self-contained units for individual students
• Progress checks, follow-up lessons and final assessments track progress
• Separate answer keys for peer or teacher grading
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Grade 3
Introduction to Topic Sentences
Distinguish topic from detail sentences. Diagram paragraph structures. $5.00
Comparing & Contrasting A
Analyze characteristics. Use a matrix to identify similarities and differences. $5.00
Introduction to Analyzing Characters
Infer nine common traits from dialog and direct action. $5.00
Introduction to Story Structure
Analyze character, setting, and plot (including goals, obstacles, attempts, and outcomes). $5.00
Introduction to Predicting Outcomes
Link clues in text to personal experiences. Revise predictions based on logic and story structure. $5.00
Introduction to Context Clues
Use signal words, definitions, examples, comparisons, and reversals as context clues. $5.00
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Grade 4
Introduction to Making Inferences
Identify clues. Use prior knowledge. Confirm and revise inferences. $5.00
Working with Cause and Effect
Analyze relationships, signal words, and multiple causes. $5.00
Beginning Outlining Skills
Construct a two-level outline by paraphrasing, categorizing, and charting main ideas and details. $5.00
Focus on Context Clues
Infer word categories and word associations. Analyze word parts. Use context for multiple-meaning words. $5.00
Interpreting Similes and Metaphors
Locate and define sensory language. Visualize images. Interpret sensory language in poetry. $5.00
Introduction to Fact & Opinion
Define “fact” and “opinion,” locate clues that signal opinions, and examine exaggeration and persuasion. $5.00
Focus on Summarizing
Infer or paraphrase main ideas, recognize causal connections, and relate summaries to stories. $5.00
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Grade 5
Developing Outlining Skills
Use key words to identify major and minor ideas. Analyze levels of ideas in explanatory passages and science text. $5.00
Focus on Making Inferences
Make inferences from plot, character, mood, and setting clues. Visualize as an aid to inferring. $5.00
Comparing & Contrasting B
Use clues and paraphrasing to analyze contrasting ideas and supporting reasons. $5.00
Focus on Character Traits
Analyze authors’ techniques. Make inferences. $5.00
Analyzing Story Structure
Use story elements to infer causes and draw conclusions. Summarize from notes. $5.00
Focus on Main Ideas and Details
Analyze paragraph structures. Infer main ideas. Summarize articles. $5.00
Comprehension Through Cloze • Level 1
Use inductive reasoning for reading. $5.00
Understanding Fact & Opinion
Analyze and evaluate news/propaganda. $5.00
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Grade 6
Focus on Figurative Language
Interpret alliteration, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, personification, simile, and metaphor. $5.00
Comprehension Through Cloze • Level 2
Use inductive reasoning to complete reading passages. $5.00
Analyzing Fact & Opinion
Test facts and opinions in quotations, newspaper articles, and editorials. $5.00
Content Area Study Skills 1
Use the Preview-Question-Read method to preview a chapter, to develop questions before and during reading. Use the answers to summarize. $5.00
Advanced Analyzing Main Ideas
Identify main ideas. Predict and analyze authors’ purposes. $5.00
Advanced Making Inferences
Make inferences about story elements. Infer cause and effect. $5.00
Reading Strategies for the Content Areas1
Evaluate the validity and accuracy of information. Make tables for comparing two sources of information. $5.00
Using Context Clues
Infer meaning from context. Build context for new words. $5.00
Understanding Analogies
Use a 9-step strategy to analyze similar, opposite, part-to-whole, and function analogies. $5.00
Focus on Mood in Stories
Identify body language, gesture, and key words or phrases as mood clues. Infer mood from action or dialog. Note mood shifts. $5.00
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Grade 7-8
Appreciating Literature
Infer setting and mood. Summarize plot. Analyze literary structures. $5.00
Advanced Preview-Question-Read
Use the Preview-Question-Read method to study a textbook chapter. Record key ideas and details. $5.00
Applying Outlining Skills
Outline with parallel structure by establishing different levels of ideas, noting key words, and converting key word notes to parallel structure. $5.00
Summarizing and Generalizing
Analyze paragraph structure. Paraphrase and
summarize narrative, descriptive, explanatory, and sequential text. $5.00
Comparing & Contrasting C
Analyze implied comparisons and contrasts, similes, and metaphors. Chart traits as a notetaking technique. $5.00
Interpreting Poetry
Infer symbolic meaning. Analyze figurative language and main ideas in poetry. $5.00
Reading Strategies for the Content Areas 2
Use text clues in grammatical structure and chronology. Chart attributes to “unpack” condensed facts. $5.00
Advanced Analyzing Characters
Use graphic organizers to draw conclusions about characters. $5.00
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