Jamestown Education - McGraw-Hill Ryerson

Reading Skills and Strategies
Benefits students who...
Have limited comprehension skills
Can’t apply skills/strategies
Signature Reading
Have limited vocabulary
Read below grade level
Rarely choose to read
Perform poorly on tests
What Works
A particularly useful reading
resource is the Jamestown
Signature Reading series.
This series effectively keys in
on reading skills, and on
teaching and learning
strategies. The readings are
short, appeal to a wide
audience, cover a variety of
genres, and give students
the tools to approach
different types of reading.
The graphic organizers are
particularly useful in
teaching students specific
skills, for example,
sequencing skills and also in
teaching them text
structures such as cause and
effect organization. The
questions at the end of each
reading are a quick way to
monitor and track
comprehension, and
students see, in a very
concrete way, their own
improvement over time.
—Donna Giacalone
Hamilton Wentworth Catholic
District School Board
Encourage students to master strategies
with our best-selling core series
Improve students’ comprehension, vocabulary, content-area reading,
and metacognitive strategies
Encourage reading growth with graduated readability in each book
Help students apply skills and strategies to new reading situations
Signature Reading is the cornerstone for building a student-centered learning
experience—a nine-level sequential program that uses self-assessments to help
readers participate in and evaluate their own learning process. We’ve applied
the best research on reading strategies to help you offer instruction before,
during, and after reading, freeing students to reach new levels of success.
Each book contains the strategies most often found on standardized tests
• Recognizing main ideas
• Making inferences
• Recognizing text structures
• Recognizing literary forms
• Using graphic organizers
• Increasing vocabulary
Refreshed, revised, and redesigned
• Each Annotated Teacher Edition contains
the Jamestown Placement Test. Now you
can quickly find the right book for your
students!
• New covers and redesigned pages make the
books even more appealing.
• Same great instructional approach.
compatible with
earlier edition
Signature Reading Level D Level E
Reading Level 2–4 3–5
Interest Level 4–8 4–8
Student Text 0-07-861716-2 0-07-861718-9
Teacher Edition 0-07-861717-0 0-07-861719-7
SPECIAL SAVINGS!
Special Value Set 10 books and 1 Teacher’s Edition
ISBNs for sets 0-07-865554-4 0-07-865555-2
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