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Jamestown Signature Reading, Student Edition, Level D

Jamestown Signature Reading, Student Edition, Level D

National Edition
MHID: 0078617162 | ISBN 13: 9780078617164
Grades: 6 - 12
© 2005

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Signature Reading is the cornerstone for building a student-centered learning experience -- a nine-level sequential program that uses self-assessments to help readers participate in and evaluate their own learning process. We’ve applied the best research on reading strategies to help you offer instruction before, during and after reading, freeing students to reach new levels of success.

All Features

Each book contains the strategies most often found on standardized tests

  • Recognizing main ideas
  • Making inferences
  • Recognizing text structures
  • Recognizing literary forms
  • Using graphic organizers
  • Increasing vocabulary

Refreshed, revised, and redesigned

  • Each Annotated Teacher Edition contains the Jamestown Placement Test. Now you can quickly find the right book for your students!
  • New covers and redesigned pages make the books even more appealing.
  • Same great instructional approach

Level D Student Text

How to Use this Book

Lesson 1: "The Hole in the Road" by Helen Ketteman
Identifying Problems and Solutions

Lesson 2: "Laughter is Good Medicine"
Reading an Informational Article

Lesson 3: "The Visitor" by Katherine Ayres
Following Sequence

Lesson 4: "Dogs Who 'Think'"
Reading an Informational Article

Lesson 5: "Wagon Wheels" by Barbara Brenner
Drawing Conclusions

Learning New Words

Lesson 6: "Grandaddy's Place" by Helen V. Griffith
Drawing Conclusions about Characters

Lesson 7: "Ostriches, or The Birds Nobody Noticed" by Angela Mackworth-Young
Identifying Causes and Effects

Lesson 8: "What Makes a Bird a Bird?" by May Garelick
Comparing and Contrasting

Lesson 9: "Petronella" (Part 1) by Jay Williams
Mapping the Elements of a Story

Lesson 10: "Petronella" (Part 2) by Jay Williams
Using Story Elements to Make Predictions

Learning New Words

Lesson 11: "The Pudding Like a Night on the Sea" by Ann Cameron
Making Predictions

Lesson 12: "Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll" by Franklin M. Branley
Identifying Sequence

Lesson 13: "On Bicycles" by Kyle Carter
Outlining a Selection

Lesson 14: "Greg LeMond" by Jim O'Connor
Reading a Biographical Sketch

Lesson 15: "Harriet Tubman" by Margo McLoone
Reading a Biography

Learning New Words

Lesson 16: "The Drinking Gourd" (Part 1) by F.N. Monjo
Summarizing a Story

Lesson 17: "The Drinking Gourd" (Part 2) by F.N. Monjo
Using Summaries to Make Predictions

Lesson 18: "The Stars: Lights in the Night Sky" by Jeanne Bendick
Summarizing Main Ideas in Nonfiction

Lesson 19: "The Fisherman Who Wanted a Knife" by Marie Winn
Identifying Problems and Solutions

Lesson 20: "All Kinds of Money" by Robert Young
Outlining Main Ideas and Supporting Details

Learning New Words

Graphing Your Progress

Glossary of Terms