Strategic Reading In US History

Integrated curriculum kits provide a wide range of innovative ideas for connecting reading skills instruction with core content in both U.S. and world history. Each kit includes: An extensive guide with teacher instructions and reproducible student handouts that offers techniques for helping students know and understand the purpose(s) for reading, determine the structure of different types of readings, effectively make connections between what they read and the existing background knowledge they have, draw inferences from readings, synthesize a variety of information from multiple sources, and monitor their own reading comprehension PowerPoint® slides that demonstrate important reading and learning techniques introduced in the teacher's guide Grades 6 - 12