Start-to-Finish Content Connect

Start-to-Finish Content Connect is an instructional framework
designed to work hand-in-hand
with Start-to-Finish Core Content informational books.

Explicit step-by-step lessons help teachers provide daily
content-area reading strategy instruction to accelerate content mastery.

Start-to-Finish Core Content

Offers engaging, standards-based informational books for adolescent readers. Levels are appropriate for intermediate, middle and high school students who are reading below proficiently or lack the strategies necessary to successfully comprehend informational text.

Why use Start-to-Finish Core Content

• Activating and building background knowledge
• Formulating and answering questions
• Setting a purpose for learning
• Making connections to self, text and the world
• Responding to text in personally meaningful ways
• Collaborative, interactive learning
• Metacognitive reflection (students monitor and assess their own learning and performance)

Strategy Instruction Guide

• Teach content area reading strategies
• Choose reading materials
• Prepare for strategy instruction
• Facilitate question and answer sessions
• Improve learning and teaching through formative assessment
• Implement an Administrator Walkthrough

Download Start-to-Finish Content Connect Scope and Sequence

Download a sample lesson from the Strategy Instruction Guide

Daily Instruction Guide

The Daily Instruction Guide offers you a framework to implement strategy instruction 15 minutes a day and provides a number of reproducible blackline masters.

This guide helps you:

• Get the big picture using the previewing strategy
• Build background knowledge through vocabulary
• Read and connect using the questioning strategy
• Discover information through independent reading

Download a sample lesson from the Daily Instruction Guide