Target direct instruction to specific student needs
Teach the strategies that build better readers and improve understanding of fiction and nonfiction by choosing the skill areas you want to reinforce – correlated to your own standards. Reading Strategy Booklets focus review on critical skill areas, tailor practice to individual needs, and support inclusion for at-risk learners.
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
Components:
• Student Booklets contain an entire INSIGHTS unit adapted for individual study.
• Answer Guides provide answers to all pages of the Student Booklet.
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
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
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
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
GRADES 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
