Focus on Reading Strategies Level F Workbook

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Student Workbook 135 Pages

Focus on Reading Strategies
Create skilled, strategic, successful readers!

• Directly teaches the active reading strategies research, has shown most actively improve reading comprehension
  
• Direct instruction and practice of essential active reading strategies through text-dependent questions and tasks
  
• Practice of reading comprehension skills
  
• Development of vocabulary strategies
  
• High-interest fiction and informational selections span a wide range of genres and topics
  
• A variety of before, during, and after reading activities address multiple learning styles
• Review lessons allow students to practice new skills and strategies
  
• Listening lessons develop listening comprehension skills
  
• Writing activities and review lessons assess progress
  
  Each lesson has six consistent sections that guide learning:
  
  1. Before Reading: Heads Up
  Students access prior knowledge to provide a framework for deeper textual understanding.
  2. During Reading: Think-Along Questions
  Readers interact with the text through questioning, predicting, and making connections.
  3. After Reading: Make Sense of Words
  Vocabulary Strategies build vocabulary and provide tools for independent reading.
  4. After Reading: Read with Understanding
  Multiple-choice questions, similar to those on state and national tests, provide practice for the targeted skill.
  5. After Reading: Understand by Seeing It
  Students use visual mapping strategies with a variety of graphic organizers.
  6. After Reading: Write to Learn
  Students demonstrate mastery of comprehension skills and reading strategies through writing activities.