To be successful, students must be able to comprehend the nonfiction material they encounter in textbooks, reference materials, and testing situations. The ability to interpret nonfiction information depends on the development of several key skills and strategies: 
--Main Idea/Supporting Details --Using Text Organizers --Summarizing/Paraphrasing --Using Parts of the Book --Developing Vocabulary --Making Inferences --Prior Knowledge/Making Connections --Setting the Purpose --Author's Point of View --Questioning --Structural Patterns --Visualizing 
Each notebook in this series covers all of these skills and strategies by providing practical teaching guidelines as well as motivating student activities. This systematic approach to reading instruction, coupled with repeated exposure to a wide variety of nonfiction reading materials, provides a structure in which students can achieve significant growth.

Successful Strategies for Reading in the Content Area, Grades 1-2

Prior, Jennifer Overend

Trischitta, Andrea

Clark, Sarah Kartchner

Dugan, Christine

Moretine, Teresa

Ray, Jan

Rosenburg, Mary

Shell Educational Publishing

To be successful, students must be able to comprehend the nonfiction material they encounter in textbooks, reference materials, and testing situations. The ability to interpret nonfiction information depends on the development of several key skills and strategies: --Main Idea/Supporting Details --Using Text Organizers --Summarizing/Paraphrasing --Using Parts of the Book --Developing Vocabulary --Making Inferences --Prior Knowledge/Making Connections --Setting the Purpose --Author's Point of View --Questioning --Structural Patterns --Visualizing Each notebook in this series covers all of these skills and strategies by providing practical teaching guidelines as well as motivating student activities. This systematic approach to reading instruction, coupled with repeated exposure to a wide variety of nonfiction reading materials, provides a structure in which students can achieve significant growth.

Successful Strategies for Reading in the Content Area, Grades 3-5

Successful Strategies for Reading in the Content Area, Secondary

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Teacher-directed lessons and independent student activities focus on the five key elements of reading as identified by the National Reading Panel: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.The activities target standards in these areas:•phonemic awareness•uses meaning clues such as pictures, captions, sentences•main idea/ theme•making inferences or predictions•summarization

Reading First Activities: Grade 2

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Teacher Created Resources

Teacher-directed lessons and independent student activities focus on the five key elements of reading as identified by the National Reading Panel: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

Reading First Activities: Grade 3 Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension (Teacher Created Materials 3023)

Comprehension & Critical Thinking: Level 3 (Time for Kids)

TEACHER CREATED MATERIALS PUBLISHING

Across the curriculum activities based on "Amber Brown is not a Crayon".

AMBER BROWN IS NOT A CRAYON LITERATURE NOTES

Frank Schaffer Publications

Help students become more comfortable when communicating in groups. Lessons in public speaking, persuasive speech, and drama are accompanied by a wide variety of activities: Reading aloud Presenting reports Developing and sharing opinions Reviewing books, movies, and events Storytelling Puppet Shows

Activities For Oral Language Development: Grade 3-5

Dustman, Jeanne

Investigate essential science concepts with fun, easy-to-implement, hands-on activities designed to support the National Science Education Standards. You'll find plenty of creative ideas and reproducibles to enhance your curriculum, grab your students' attention, and make science connections to everyday life. A wide range of activities promote scientific inquiry and connect science with other areas of the curriculum, such as math, writing, and art. Investigating science has never been more fun! 48 pages. Each unit contains: Step-by-step instructions Clearly defined objectives and skills Background information for the teacher Engaging reproducibles Valuable resource booklist

Weather: Grades 1-3 (Investigating science series)

Science & Math

Environment

The Education Center

Magnets provides lesson plans and cross-curricular activities based on the following pieces of literature: Marta's Magnets and What Makes a Magnet? This reproducible resource is filled with ready-to-use lessons and cross-curricular activities. Also included are management ideas, creative suggestions for the classroom, and a bibliography.

Magnets Thematic Unit

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