INSIGHTS: Reading as Thinking provides explicit, systematic, and sequenced instruction to help students read fiction and nonfiction strategically. Effective teaching strategies help students become critical thinkers who understand levels of meaning.

Student book pages interact directly with teacher manual pages so that students and teachers can communicate the thinking process behind each strategy. Lessons in each unit build upon one another from simple to more complex to ensure success.

Lessons focus on teaching strategies for reading and using information from textbooks and other expository writing. Students analyze new word meanings, complex ideas, graphics, and common text structures such as compare and contrast, hypothesis and proof, and cause and effect.

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