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Making Connections Student Book 6, Reading Comprehension Skills & Strategies, Grade 6

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Help Grade 6 students succeed at reading (and interpreting) various types of fiction or nonfiction texts with this reading comprehension workbook, which features pre- and post-reading focus questions, illustrations, "Practice the Skill" pages, and more.

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Description

In every Making Connections Student Book, users will find a balance of informational and narrative text, content-area selections that support curriculum standards, and Practice the Skill pages for each text selection. Level 6 is designed for Grade 6 literacy level. Reading strategies that students will practice in this workbook include identifying text structure, questioning, learning cooperatively, understanding vocabulary, monitoring comprehension, summarizing, applying multiple strategies, and more.

Making Connections is a direct, systematic, and highly interactive reading comprehension program that is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and teaches students strategies to build their text analysis and comprehension skills. This flexible program employs a scaffolded instructional plan that supports students by modeling, guiding, and then coaching students to reading independence. Fiction and nonfiction texts are tied to content-area topics to prepare students to analyze and interpret diverse materials across content-areas. Full program designed for Grades 1 to 6.

Features

  • Making Connections workbook will help your Grade 6 learners become active, strategic readers and to develop key reading comprehension skills and strategies
  • Each unit focuses on a specific reading comprehension skill that is first introduced and then developed through explicit instruction and modeling, pen-to-paper practice exercises, and scaffolded instructional support
  • Support is gradually removed throughout the workbook to ease students into independent reading
  • Variety of engaging fiction stories and high-interest non-fiction (including biographies, science & social study texts, Greek myth, and more) will expose students to relevant grade-level topics and language
  • Text features such as maps, graphs, tables, illustrations and real photos, and glossaries help aid reading comprehension and spiral-based questions after each passage
Systematic Reading Comprehension Skills & Strategies Student Workbook Features:
  • Unit 1: Main Idea (Theme: Out in Space)
  • Unit 2: Compare and Contrast (Theme: Occupations)
  • Unit 3: Drawing Conclusions/Predicting Outcomes (Theme: Ancient Egypt)
  • Unit 4: Cause and Effect (Theme: Health and the Body)
  • Unit 5: Figurative Language (Theme: Modern Life)
  • Unit 6: Bias an Prejudice (Theme: Community)
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Making Connections

  • Each unit focuses on one comprehension skill, such as comparing and contrasting, identifying main ideas, or differentiating between fact and option
  • Lessons allow students to apply strategies to informational or narrative texts
  • Units culminate with the Comprehension Library reader that supports the independent application of skills and strategies

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Making Connections® is a direct, systematic, and highly interactive comprehension program that teaches students strategies to build their comprehension. The program employs a scaffolded instructional plan that supports students by modeling, guiding, and then coaching students to independence. Fiction and nonfiction texts are tied to content-area topics to prepare students to analyze and interpret diverse materials across content areas.

Students will learn how to:

  • Understand skills such as cause and effect, drawing conclusions, and predicting outcomes
  • Locate, interpret, and organize key information in a text
  • Analyze words in a text using vocabulary strategies
  • Utilize text features such as maps, graphs, tables, photos, and glossaries to aid comprehension
  • Interpret a variety of genres including biographies, science & social studies texts, Greek myth and much more!

For More Information

  • Contact a sales consultant for more information on how you can best utilize this program in your school or district. Our sales consultants are your resource for product presentations, workshops, and product review samples.
Making Connections Student Book 6, Reading Comprehension Skills & Strategies, Grade 6