Summarizing is an essential reading comprehension skill in all subject areas. Using original poetry, stories, maps, non-fiction selections, and more, this book will guide students to write their own summaries.

Enhance lesson plans with Guided Reading: Summarize for fifth and sixth grades. This resource includes 36 leveled readers—six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers. The readers engage students with text about the transcontinental railroad, echolocation, and more. Create an effective comprehensive language arts program with Ready to Go Guided Reading: Summarize. This resource offers informational text for students at various reading levels and includes: -prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features -discussion guides -leveled readers with intriguing topics -graphic organizers and an observation sheet The readers are separated by below-, on-, and above-level comprehension skills and feature call-out boxes so students can apply reading strategies to the texts. Each reader addresses captivating topics and includes a writing prompt so students can show what they know. The 12-book Ready to Go: Guided Reading series for first to sixth grades eases the stress of guided reading organization. These 80-page resources serve as comprehensive set, complete with six discussion guides and three reproducible pages. Four books are included in each grade span to focus on the essential reading comprehension strategies: -Connect -Infer -Question -Summarize These resources contain short nonfiction texts, charts, photographs, maps, and call-out boxes.

Help your students develop the writing skills they need to succeed with this timely resource! This book provides teachers with standards-based strategies to help students demonstrate their learning of fiction-related concepts as they navigate the complexities of literary works. This book offers detailed strategies for using graphic organizers, developing vocabulary, journal writing, taking notes, applying knowledge, and assessing student writing. The strategies also help prepare students for success in college and careers. Classroom examples and differentiation suggestions with every strategy provide clear models for success!

Get students in grades 5–6 reading with Reading: Daily Skill Builders. This 96-page book features two short, reproducible activities per page and includes enough lessons for an entire school year. It covers topics such as author’s purpose, context clues, character analysis, comparing and contrasting, main idea, fact and opinion, diagrams, and summarizing. Frequent reviews provide practice in a standardized test format, the activities align with state standards, and the book includes a matrix for selected states.

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The bestselling classic biography of Jackie Robinson, America's legendary baseball player and civil rights activist, told from the unique perspective of an insider: his only daughter. Sharon Robinson shares memories of her famous father in this warm loving biography of the man who broke the color barrier in baseball -- and taught his children that the only measure of life is the impact you have on others lives'. Promises to Keep is the story of Jackie Robinson's hard-won victories in baseball, business, politics, and civil rights. It looks at the inspiring effect the legendary Brooklyn Dodger had on his family, his community ... his country. Told from the unique perspective of Robinson's only daughter, this intimate and uplifting book includes photos from the Robinson family archives and family letters never published before. Jackie Robinson is one our great national heroes. Promises to Keep reminds us what made him a champion -- on and off the field!

Help students read about social studies content and build their historical thinking skills! This 2nd edition resource was created to support College and Career Readiness Standards, and provides an in-depth research base about content-area literacy instruction, including key strategies to help students read and comprehend historical content. Each strategy includes classroom examples by grade ranges (1-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12) and necessary support materials, such as graphic organizers, templates, or digital resources to help teachers implement quickly and easily. Specific suggestions for differentiating instruction are also provided to help English language learners, gifted students, and students reading below grade level.