Integrated modeling and guided instruction to build comprehension skills and strategies.

Recent literacy research shows that the most successful reading instruction encompasses both skills and strategies. The Best Practices Intervention Kit gives your students the right mix of skill and strategy building materials to build comprehension. Fiction and non-fiction passages are used to teach vocabulary and critical thinking. For struggling readers, choose the kit one level below to build proficiency. The Best Practices Intervention Kit is an excellent alternative for ELL students at Early Intermediate through Advanced Proficiency levels.

DIAGNOSE AND ASSESS

Best Practices in Reading Pretest/Posttest

• Identify student skill levels and establish a baseline for instruction with the pretest.
• Measure progress and find areas in need of additional instruction using the posttest.

INSTRUCT AND PRACTICE

Best Practices in Reading

• Promotes level-by level growth with instruction, modeling, and guided practice; developed using research on the best practices in reading comprehension instruction.
• Builds core comprehension skills including main idea, cause and effect, sequence, making inferences, and using context clues.
• Improves comprehension strategies such as prior knowledge, prediction, making connections, drawing conclusions, questioning, visualizing, and summarizing.

Selected Best Practices in Reading Classroom Library Books

Included in Kits for Grades 1-5

• Extend comprehension strategies with six leveled readers-three fiction and three non-fiction.
• Five sets of six readers are included in each kit.
• Encourage student practice with end-of-book questions that focus on genres, inferences, and making connections.

Connecting Vocabulary

Included in Kits for Grades 6-8

• Build strong student vocabularies through skill-based activities.
• Combine vocabulary instruction and test preparation with high-interest content area topics to emphasize important vocabulary terms.
• Guided instruction and practice to facilitate skill mastery.

Short Subjects in Reading FREE!

Included in Kits for Grades 6-8

• Reinforce new skills and critical thinking with a reading and writing activity for each day of the school year.

REFERENCE TOOLS

The Writer’s Thesaurus

• Handy and easy-to-use resource guide for students to improve their writing skills.
• More than 4,400 words to use in place of the most overused English words.

TEACHER GUIDE

Best Practices in Reading Intervention Teacher Resource Guide  FREE!

• Created exclusively for the Best Practices Intervention Kit.
• Pacing charts, reproducibles, daily lesson plans, and practice activities.

Teacher Guides for individual titles are also included.

Yours FREE: get a wheeled cart free with your Intervention Kit purchase.

Available in kits for 15 or 20 students.

Best Practices Classroom Library Paired Titles (5 of each pair included in each package)

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