40 strategies for guiding readers through informational texts

"Gaining the skills to critically read a wide variety of informational texts is more important than ever for today's K-12 students. This carefully crafted book offers 40 standards based instructional activities that teachers can immediately put to use in the classroom. Clear rationales and step by step instructions are provided for implementing each strategy, together with helpful classroom examples and suggested texts for different grade levels. In a large size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 44 reproducible worksheets. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials"--