Skills and Strategies Students Need to Be Strong Learners
Connect Skills and Strategies to Develop Comprehension and Critical Thinking
- Short, engaging nonfiction books provide explicit instruction in the skills and strategies needed for critical thinking and effective reading.
- High-impact lessons help students connect targeted reading skills with reading strategies, language skills, graphic aids, and writing.
- Pre/Post test guides instruction and supports progress monitoring.
- Student Books are ideal for introducing nonfiction text features.
- Each topic is presented in four leveled Student Books to support differentiated instruction.
- Clear, concise Teacher’s Notes support explicit instruction, teacher modeling, and guided and independent practice.
Reading skills and strategies are important tools for constructing meaning from texts, and become even more powerful when students begin to understand how they are interrelated. Connect to Literacy™ provides explicit instruction for essential reading skills and teaches students to make connections between these skills and related reading strategies, language skills, writing, and their own lives.
Student Books
- Short, engaging nonfiction books focus on the skills and strategies needed for critical thinking and effective reading.
- Students learn to connect targeted reading skills with reading strategies, language skills, graphic aids, and writing—and reflect on how theses skills are relevant to their lives.
- The high-interest science and social studies topics are engaging and motivating to all students and promote interest in content-area reading.
- Each theme is presented in four leveled Student Books to support differentiated instruction.
- Each skill and strategy pair includes instruction and practice using a different graphic aid.
- Texts can be read in one sitting to support efficient, focused instruction and give all students the experience of reading whole texts.
Teacher’s Notes
- Clear and concise Teacher’s Notes support instruction.
- Lessons offer explicit instruction and guided and independent practice of core reading skills and strategies.
