Perfect for small group instruction geared toward Response to Intervention, BTR Zone: Bridge to Reading motivates reluctant and struggling readers with high-interest nonfiction focused on science, adventure, biography, history, and sports. With scaffolds such as on-page definitions, photographs, illustrations, captions, subheads, and informational graphics, BTR Zone books provide practice with the text features so important to understanding informational text. A teaching plan steeped in Common Core State Standards for Literacy provides instruction for vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and authentic writing - truly providing a bridge for students to become more strategic readers.

Perfect for small group instruction geared toward Response to Intervention, BTR Zone: Bridge to Reading motivates reluctant and struggling readers with high-interest nonfiction focused on science, adventure, biography, history, and sports. With scaffolds such as on-page definitions, photographs, illustrations, captions, subheads, and informational graphics, BTR Zone books provide practice with the text features so important to understanding informational text. A teaching plan steeped in Common Core State Standards for Literacy provides instruction for vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and authentic writing truly providing a bridge for students to become more strategic readers.

The teacher resources which accompany the Cover-to-Cover reading series include reproducible activity skills sheets. These activity books focus on word and comprehension exercises for three chapters at a time. The activities will reinforce a wide variety of language and reading skills which are generally part of the curriculum at the reading level of the novel.