Focus on Reading Strategies | GRADES 1–8

Teacher Guides

These teacher guides frontload standards-based skill instruction

• Unit introductions highlight the featured state standards and provide discussion points for introducing the skill.

• Scripted minilessons offer tools for skill modeling and instruction.

• Reproducible activities bridge instruction and practice.

• Vocabulary lists and reproducible vocabulary cards prepare students for reading the selections in the Student Books.

• Featured state standards are identified for all activities.

Teacher Guides also contain

• An overview of research for teaching active reading strategies

• A step-by-step guide for using the Student Book to produce strategic readers

• Two complete listening comprehension lessons

• Comprehensive skills and strategies charts to correlate instruction with your state standards

• Blackline masters of graphic organizers that help students practice and apply reading strategies

• Response keys for all lessons