X-Zone

X-Zone features text support for struggling readers:

• Questions on the cover stimulate interest and generate predictions
• Table of Contents shows text organization (main ideas and details)
• High-interest visuals and intriguing graphics
• Straightforward language and sentence structures
• Text in manageable chunks and shorter line breaks
• Larger font and extra spacing between lines
• Critter characters interact with readers (clarify, expand, question, stimulate thinking)
• Sidebars and breakout boxes provide interesting trivia
• Student-friendly definitions within text and in Glossary
• CD-ROM provides vocabulary and comprehension practice activities

Each lesson plan features:

• One metacognitive strategy, such as making connections, visualizing, making predictions, and self-questioning
• One comprehension strategy, such as identifying main ideas, summarizing, drawing conclusions, understanding question/answer relationships, sequencing, organizing information, comparing/contrasting, and identifying cause/effect
• One vocabulary skill, such as structural analysis, context clues, and functions of words

Components:

Classroom Sets, 1-4

• 12 different books; 1 6-pack of each
• 12 Lesson Plans

6-packs of each book

• For whole-class or larger group use

Library Set

• 1 copy of each of the 24 different books