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Improve your student's reading skills with TIME Nonfiction Readers: Grade 7 Kit. This easy-to-use teacher resource provides your classroom with a wide variety of informational texts in the science, social studies and mathematics subject areas. Developed by one of the leading experts in reading research-Timothy Rasinski-this comprehensive kit offers strategies to teach nonfiction content and boost student reading skills. With intriguing topics that will excite middle school students, this kit includes 18 captivating texts, purposefully leveled to increase comprehension and engage different types of learners. Each text features complex and rigorous content divided into thematic trios. Aligned with Common Core State Standards, this kit connects with McREL, WIDA/TESOL standards and prepares students for college and career readiness. This extensive kit includes: Teacher's Guide - provides a theme lesson overview and content-focused writing activity for each trio of readers, a 5-page lesson plan for each individual title, answer keys, model lessons, and academic vocabulary; and an Assessment Guide - fluency and writing rubrics, as well as best practices.
Each leveled reader motivates students to want to read with high-interest content and engaging illustrations and photographs. The authentic reading experiences help students develop vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency skills.
Provide teachers with the tools they need to do their jobs more effectively with easy-to-use, standards-based lesson plans. Each lesson is organized in a consistent format for ease of use. Emergent through Fluent Plus Teacher's Guide lessons focus on two of the following key nonfiction skills or strategies:
Advanced through Challenging Plus Teacher's Guide lessons focus on two of the following nonfiction skills or strategies:
Each trio of readers is accompanied by a variety of texts such as primary sources, articles, poems, and other text types.
Each Assessment Guide in this series includes research about assessments, how to use the assessments provided with the product, a series Placement Test in digital format, an oral reading record and multiple choice questions for each book, references cited, and an answer key for the lessons.
Integrate technology into literacy instruction and prepare students for a more technologically advanced world through Interactiv-eBooks provided in each Nonfiction Readers kit.
Enhance instruction through meaningful tools for interacting with the text. For assessing students' fluency and comprehension, teachers can use the Interactiv-eBooks to prompt questions within the text through digital sticky notes, as well as encourage students to record themselves reading with the record tool to practice fluent reading.
Interactiv-eBooks can be used in a group, paired, or individual setting. Interactiv-eBooks are available as a Single Classroom License in each Nonfiction Readers kit, but can be ordered as School Site Licenses as well.
Professional recordings of books and poems model fluent reading.
Encourage parents and families to extend their child's reading development and build literacy skills at home with the Parent Tips booklet provided digitally within each Nonfiction Readers kit.
Filled with tips to help develop reading skills at home, teachers can easily print and share the document with parents and caregivers to use with their children. In addition to informational texts found at home, digital versions of each book in the kit can also be printed and replicated for students to take home.
