Overview
Survival Reading Skills for Secondary Students is your guidefor working with struggling students in grades 5-12 no matter whattheir reading ability. This valuable resource is a down-to-earthguide that contains countless classroom-tested strategies thatreading and content area teachers can use to reinforce skills thatstudents must master to read effectively. In addition, the bookoffers ready-to-use activity sheets designed to improve competencyin a number of relevant reading skills. Students will learn how tofill in a job application, read an airline schedule, apply for adriver's license, and practice many more useful real-life skills.
For quick access and easy use, the book is organized in sevensections and printed in a big 8 ½" X 11" lay-flat format foreasy photocopying. The following is just a small sample of the manystrategies, assessments, inventories, and activities featured ineach section:
1. INFORMAL READING ASSESSMENT TOOLS FOR OLDER STUDENTS:Includes a Content Reading Inventory. . . lists of sample wordsfrom a range of content areas including English, social studies,science, and mathematics&an informal assessment to determine astudent's approximate instructional reading level.
2. STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR IMPROVING SKILLS TO IDENTIFYCONTENT SIGHT WORDS: Provides reproducible copies of wordsneeded for computer literacy . . . strategies for improvingstudents' ability to recognize and identify important content anddaily-living words . . . activities that include a reversedcrossword puzzle and a magic square from science.
3. STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR IMPROVING BASIC PHONICSKILLS: Contains the basic phonic elements in which olderstudents should be competent . . . seven helpful phonicgeneralizations . . . activity sheets that challenge students tocomplete a shopping list and discover a secret code.
4. STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR IMPROVING ABILITY IN WORDSTRUCTURE: Includes an explanation of the usefulness of wordroots, prefixes, and suffixes . . . comprehensive lists of the mostuseful elements of word structure that help students read and studycontent materials effectively . . . activity sheets that helpstudents determine word etymologies and correct accents.
5. STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR IMPROVING USE OF CONTEXTCLUES: Presents a useful classification scheme for contextclues . . . method of teaching context clues, cryptology, andmutilated messages . . . activities that direct students to choosethe correct word in sentence context.
6. STRATEGIES AND MATERIALS FOR IMPROVING COMPREHENSIONSKILLS WHILE READING CONTENT MATERIAL: Contains an explanationof levels of reading comprehensiontextually explicit, textuallyimplicit, and critical or evaluative . . . myriad classroom-testedstrategies for improving comprehension . . . activity sheets thatengage students to figure out which is the better invention andcomplete a job application form.
7. STRATEGIES AND MATERIALS FOR IMPROVING STUDY SKILLS IN THECONTENT AREAS: Offers a description of the specialized studyskills that students need to read specific content material . . . amultitude of classroom-tested strategies for improving study skills. . . activities that help students to use the Dewey Decimal Systemand read the newspaper more effectively.
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