Teaching Students to Read Informational Texts—Independently!: 30 Step-by-Step Strategy Lessons That Scaffold Essential Common Core Reading Skills to ... Tackle Informational Texts on Their Own

By Nancy L. Witherell

Model lessons and engaging activities help students apply research-based reading strategies to informational texts so that they can read and comprehend complex texts. Students will learn these key skills:

- finding key details
- determining main idea
- locating text evidence to support an answer
- using text features
- understanding text structure
- summarizing text
- asking and answering questions
- and much more

Armed with these reading skills, students can successfully tackle complex informational texts and really become independent readers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0545554918
• ISBN13: 9780545554916
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 10.7"
• Age Range: 8 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 5