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Strategies for Content Area Reading

Teach and practice comprehension skills with high-interest science and social studies topics

What Your Colleagues Say

"We love the Options products! We used the Strategies for Content Area Reading for our fall 2004 LEP Saturday school. The focus on science and social studies expository text enhanced the level of interest for our struggling ELL readers. The format of the lesson helped the ELL students understand the important skills and strategies that good readers use. Having students apply their knowledge at the bottom of each page made the reading more interactive and comprehensible. We plan to use this product again with our ELL students."

Lezli Murto Academic Specialist
Richardson, Texas


Engage students in reading high-interest, nonfiction content with ease as you integrate reading with subject matter with Strategies for Content Area Reading. Guided instruction assists students in comprehending social studies and science content while learning how to make sense of visual organizers. Students develop study skills as they follow scaffolded models of reading strategies, and apply these strategies to expository text, making subject matter content easier to comprehend. Through high-interest, grade-level-appropriate lessons with test preparation, students are poised for success on standardized tests.

Strategies for Content Area Reading features:

  • High-interest nonfiction lessons in social studies and science
  • Comprehension skills
  • Glossary of content vocabulary
  • Study skills
  • Primary sources
  • Time lines, charts, diagrams, maps, photographs
  • Math connections
  • Test preparation
  • Assessment

Strategies include:

  • Making Inferences
  • Using Context Clues
  • Telling Fact from Opinion
  • Drawing Conclusions
  • Questioning
  • Classifying
  • Understanding Cause and Effect
  • Finding Supporting Details
  • Recognizing Point of View
  • Comparing and Contrasting
  • Identifying Main Idea and Details
  • Taking Notes

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Purchasing Information

SKU Grade Description Price Qty
WB 1465.10 3 Student Book $15.99 (1-10 copies)
$9.99 (11+ copies)
WB1466 3 Teacher Guide $15.99
WB 1467.10 4 Student Book $15.99 (1-10 copies)
$9.99 (11+ copies)
WB1468 4 Teacher Guide $15.99
WB 1469.10 5 Student Book $15.99 (1-10 copies)
$9.99 (11+ copies)
WB1470 5 Teacher Guide $15.99
WB 1471.10 6 Student Book $15.99 (1-10 copies)
$9.99 (11+ copies)
WB1472 6 Teacher Guide $15.99
WB 1473.10 7 Student Book $15.99 (1-10 copies)
$9.99 (11+ copies)
WB1474 7 Teacher Guide $15.99
WB 1475.10 8 Student Book $15.99 (1-10 copies)
$9.99 (11+ copies)
WB1476 8 Teacher Guide $15.99