Insights: Content Area Strategies

Grades 3-5

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.

Meet your Reading First goals in comprehension and vocabulary.



•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.



Ordering Information

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