Exploring Nonfiction: A Differentiated Content-Area Reading Program

2nd Edition

Exploring Nonfiction: A Differentiated Content-Area Reading Program teaches nonfiction reading skills and strategies to help students understand and interpret content-area text. The standards-based lessons and nonfiction text cards at two levels are differentiated to meet the needs of all learners. The high-interest cards, developed by TIME FOR KIDS® are divided into four content areas and incorporate standards-based science, social studies, language arts, and mathematics topics, with a variety of types of nonfiction text. The differentiated lessons provide strategies for English language learners, above-level students, and below-level students. Academic vocabulary and fluency strategy practice are also provided for each lesson. Together, these lessons and cards teach the skills and strategies to read nonfiction successfully.

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Each Level 1-5 kit includes:*

• 80 Differentiated Informational Text Cards

  ✓40 written at grade level

  ✓40 written below grade level

• 80 Transparencies
• Management book
• Assessment book with strategies by Ellin Keene
• Strategies resource book
• Teacher's Guide with lessons for each content area
• Teacher Resource CD with all cards, assessment pages, and reproducibles

*Contents for other levels will vary, see below for more information.

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