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Jamestown Education - McGraw-Hill Ryerson

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Reading Nonfiction<br />

Benefits students who...<br />

Rarely choose to read<br />

Can’t apply skills/strategies<br />

Perform poorly on tests<br />

Have limited comprehension skills<br />

Read below grade level<br />

The Outer Edge TM<br />

Energize low-level readers with a series based on<br />

amazing, true stories<br />

Motivate students with high-interest selections at a lower-level<br />

readability<br />

Improve proficiency in reading nonfiction<br />

Prepare students for standardized test using critical thinking questions<br />

The Outer Edge TM builds on the success of <strong>Jamestown</strong>’s popular Wild Side and<br />

Critical Reading series, enticing struggling readers with amazing, strange, and<br />

unbelievable nonfiction, now at a lower reading level. Comprehension<br />

questions reinforce literal understanding, while critical thinking questions<br />

encourage students to speculate about author’s purpose, make inferences,<br />

identify cause and effect, support conclusions, and make predictions.<br />

Amazing, courageous, and daring nonfiction<br />

• Rock climber cuts off own arm to survive<br />

• Costa Rican fishermen survive 142 days adrift at sea<br />

• Magician rallies passengers on sinking ship<br />

• Acrobat in grass skirt catches fire while jumping over flaming rope<br />

• Oldest smoke jumper still active<br />

14 www.mcgrawhill.ca/school

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