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Each lesson focuses on one text access feature and one comprehension strategy, allowing students to:

• Identify the author’s purpose
• Use organizational features quickly and efficiently
• Notice, interpret, and use text structures
• Develop and connect content vocabulary and terms
• Integrate cues from written and visual texts
• Skim, scan, browse, reread, adjust reading pace, and question the author

Each lesson plan focuses on a specific comprehension relevant to the text. Skills include those that help students:

• Sequence
• Draw conclusions
• Identify main idea and details, predict
• Identify cause and effect
• Summarize

Components:

Each Grade Level Set contains six copies of each of 16 different titles, a Lesson Plan for each title, and a 16-page Program Overview, written by Carrice Cummins, Ph.D. Dr. Cummins, a recognized expert in nonfiction instruction and comprehension, provides important insights. Her topics include Understanding Genre, Assessing Students, and Leveling Criteria for Fluency, Leveling Criteria for Proficiency, and Leveled Texts and Grouping Students. The Overview also includes a Skills and Strategies Chart, and references for the series’ research base.

Six packs of individual titles, 16-Book Library Sets, and 16-Lesson Plan Sets for each Grade Level are also available.