Jamestown Education - McGraw-Hill Ryerson

Reading Skills and Strategies
Benefits students who...
Have limited comprehension skills
Read below grade level
Rarely choose to read
Comprehension Skills
Improve fiction and nonfiction comprehension
Move beyond skill-and-drill with integrated writing activities
This innovative program helps students devote effort to only those specific
comprehension skills that give them trouble.
Five-part lesson uses teach—practice—apply—assess format
What Works
[The QAR] strategy
helps students answer
questions about a text
by having them analyze
the relationship between
the question and the
answer. . . Some answers are
stated directly in the text
(Right There). Some answers
are stated in words that
differ from the words of the
question and may be located
anywhere in the text (Think
and Search). Some answers
are implied: they are based
on clues the author has
provided (Author and Me).
And some answers use the
information in the text as a
starting point for developing
the reader’s own ideas (On
My Own).
—Teaching Reading
with Jamestown
• Part One models the specific skill for the student.
• Part Two presents an interesting and informative lesson.
• Part Three lets students practice with a
sample exercise.
• Part Four gives students 20 exercises
on a specific skill.
• Part Five integrates reading and writing
with activities to apply the skill.
Improve 10 frequently tested fiction and nonfiction skills
• Main idea
• Details
• Organization
• Judgments
• Conclusions
• Inferences
• Literary forms
• Tone
• Character
• Vocabulary
Readability Levels
Introductory 4–6
Middle 6–8
Advanced 9–12
Comprehension Skills Series Introductory Middle Advanced Price
Understanding the Main Idea 0-80-920233-6 0-80-920244-1 0-80-920156-9 $12.71 ea.
Making Judgments 0-80-920234-4 0-80-920246-8 0-80-920157-7 $12.71 ea.
Understanding Literary Forms 0-80-920239-5 0-80-920152-6 0-80-920162-3 $12.71 ea.
Understanding Significant Details 0-80-920241-7 0-80-920154-2 0-80-920165-8 $12.71 ea.
Recognizing Tone 0-80-920238-7 0-80-920151-8 0-80-920161-5 $12.71 ea.
Understanding Characters 0-80-920235-2 0-80-920247-6 0-80-920158-5 $12.71 ea.
Understanding Organization 0-80-920240-9 0-80-920153-4 0-80-920163-1 $12.71 ea.
Making Inferences 0-80-920237-9 0-80-920249-2 0-80-920160-7 $12.71 ea.
Drawing Conclusions 0-80-920236-0 0-80-920248-4 0-80-920159-3 $12.71 ea.
Understanding Vocabulary 0-80-920242-5 0-80-920155-0 0-80-920166-6 $12.71 ea.
Complete Set 0-80-920243-3 0-80-920245-X 0-80-920164-X $114.71 ea.
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