Teach content area comprehension skills in grades 3–6

When students learn sure-fire reading comprehension strategies, their growth skyrockets. When you have a plan for teaching them through high-quality lessons, so does your peace of mind.

The lessons in Content Literacy: Intermediate teach and reinforce the most important strategies for helping students in grades 3–6 become more knowledgeable, confident readers. The classroom-ready lessons in this book focus on six research-based comprehension strategies:

• Monitor comprehension
• Activate and connect to background knowledge
• Ask questions
• Infer and visualize meaning
• Determine importance
• Summarize and synthesize

Download a sample to see how Content Literacy: Intermediate can make content area comprehension instruction easier and more meaningful in your classroom.

In this sample, you’ll find:

• An overview of the lessons and related skills taught
• A look at the importance of comprehension instruction and how it can help build students’ knowledge across the content areas
• A free lesson to try right away (Lesson 19: “Ask Questions to Read Critically”)