Read to Achieve: Comprehending Content Area Text, Content Reader


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In Read to Achieve: Comprehending Content Area Text, students work daily with content examples that reflect the structure and layout of popular science and social studies texts. The level of direct teacher guidance provided to the students begins strong and is gradually phased out as students demonstrate the ability to independently select and apply appropriate comprehension strategies for the content they are reading. In the final units of this module students stop using the example text provided in the Content Reader and begin working with their actual science and social studies textbooks!




Read to Achieve: Comprehending Content Area Text, Workbook


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Read to Achieve Comprehending Content-Area Text Workbook In Comprehending Content-Area Text Workbook, students will read material that replicates the content, style, and structure of science and social studies textbooks. Essential tools and strategies help teachers prepare students to effectively read content-area text, take notes, and learn real world study skills. All skills and strategies are practiced in an instructional sequence that progresses from strong teacher support to student independence. Sharing and comparing encourages student collaboration and builds motivation to complete program activities. Students spend their time immersed in comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency building activities Word learning strategies prepare student to encounter the wide range of vocabulary words presented in content-area text.







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


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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 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. Each book has a CD with graphic organizers (for use with Inspiration®) and activity templates (for use with Microsoft Word®).




Read to Achieve


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Content Area Reading


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Read to Achieve: Comprehending Narrative Text, Above And Beyond


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In Read to Achieve: Comprehending Narrative Text, students work daily to develop comprehension strategies appropriate for fictional and non-fictional texts. Examples using selections of authentic non-fiction trade books are provided in the Anthology.




How to Improve Reading Comprehension Quickly


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How to Improve Reading Comprehension Quickly by Knowing Your Personal Reading Comprehension Style: Quick, Easy Tips to Improve Comprehension through the Brain's Fastest Superlinks Learning Style Ricki Linksman Improve your reading comprehension to remember everything you read and learn quickly. Discover your unique way of remembering what you read. Don't wait for months or years to learn these secrets to improving memory quickly-they are available now within this book for anyone to use to learn anything for any purpose. Discover the secrets to unlock your brain's powerful memory and comprehension to quickly learn and master any subject or comprehend anything you read. This book will dramatically change your life and how you learn! Use these quick, easy and fun tips to improve reading comprehension and test-taking skills to learn anything quickly for your school, job, or career. Tap into your brain's energy powers to succeed in the competitive job market. Learn fast, easy, and powerful reading comprehension strategies to remember and comprehend everything you read and learn for rapid success. Ricki Linksman, one of the world's leading experts and author of books on accelerated learning, memory, and reading comprehension, shows you how to use your brain's unique superlinks learning style and brain style to improve comprehension quickly and successfully. These powerful techniques developed by Ricki Linksman, founder-director of National Reading Diagnostics Institute and Keys Learning, have proven for over 35 years to help people of all ages become top students and workers in the shortest possible time. These brain-based memory techniques can help adult learners for school or career. Seniors and baby-boomers use these exercises to maintain their brain and memory for lifelong learning. Parents can help their child or teen improve reading comprehension, concentration, focus, and self-esteem to raise grades, reading levels, and test scores for class or state tests or high school or college placement tests (ACT or SAT) in the shortest possible time. They can help parents and teachers improve comprehension in all students, whether Beginning or Reluctant Readers in nursery, pre-K, Kindergarten, grades 1, 2, or 3; Intermediate elementary school readers in grades 4 and 5; Middle school readers in grades 6, 7, and 8, Advanced or high school readers in grades 9, 10, 11, 12, or college, whether Regular Ed, Gifted, Special Ed, Title 1, ESL, bi-lingual, or those with ADHD or ADD. Spanish-speaking or other language learners can improve comprehension of English, while English-speaking students can increase comprehension of text in any language quickly. Teachers, college instructors, coaches, or trainers can accelerate content-area reading comprehension. Football, baseball, basketball, soccer, hockey, or golf coaches can help athletes rapidly comprehend their sports playbook and keep up grades. Adult learners from college to graduate school have raise grades and improved reading comprehension, vocabulary, note taking, study and test-taking skills. Adults in the job market can rapidly learn new skills to find or keep a job, pass certification tests, start a new career when downsized, or keep pace with rapidly-changing technology in the workplace. Doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and therapists can reduce clients' stress from fear of school or tests by building confidence to comprehend anything. It is filled with strategies for visual, auditory, tactile, or kinesthetic left-brain or right-brain learners. These simple, easy methods to improve reading comprehension can help you or those you teach or train to achieve success in any field-quickly. Note to readers: This book is part of a series so for the full compendium order How to Learn Anything Quickly: Quick, Easy Tips to Improve Memory, Reading Comprehension, and Test-taking Skills through the Brain's Fastest Superlinks Learning S




The Write to Read


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Use reader response strategies to achieve Common Core goals in reading and in writing! Response journals—brief, personal writing in response to reading—can significantly improve reading comprehension. What′s more, when scaffolded over the year, reader response strategies promote engagement, build understanding of complex literary and informational text, and even help students provide supporting evidence in their writing—all goals of the Common Core. For educators eager to use reader response strategies, veteran teacher Lesley Roessing presents a unique, step-by-step approach that inspires thoughtful reading and skillful writing in Grades 5–12. Based on research and her own classroom experience, Roessing′s innovative writing exercises encourage students to read more deeply, develop questions, and participate actively in class. Beginning with simple response tasks and moving toward more complex assignments, the book provides a scaffolded curriculum for the full academic year. Developed for language arts and content area teachers, as well as literacy specialists, this resource includes: Examples of response journals for a wide range of genres, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and students′ personal reading Strategies for using reader response to guide classroom discussions, group work, book clubs, and journal writing at home Adaptations for students with diverse abilities Numerous classroom-ready templates and samples of student work Discover a well-structured writing curriculum that promotes confident learning and the joy of reading.




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


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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 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. Each book has a CD with graphic organizers (for use with Inspiration®) and activity templates (for use with Microsoft Word®).