How can Core Content help my students with their grade-level textbook content?

Embedded supports guide strategy use

How can Core Content be used to teach expository text strategy?

Start-to-Finish Core Content offers engaging, standards-based informational texts written at two levels and delivered in three media formats. Captivating expository texts prompt students to question, make meaning and summarize as they read to learn in content-area classes and intervention programs. Students hear the language of informational text read by narrators, then practice reading with auditory and visual support.

• Chapter introduction questions remind students to be asking and answering questions in their minds as they read
• Topic vocabulary words are bolded to draw the reader’s attention
• Strategic graphic and caption support enrich the learning experience
• KWL templates promote note-taking while reading
• Chapter summaries model synthesis of information after reading  

• Frontload the curriculum by providing Core Content before students are assigned the textbook material
• Carve out 15-20 minute sessions for students to use the computer books for intense practice with reading informational text
• Use proven before, during and after reading strategies with leveled KWL templates
• Practice identifying main ideas and supporting details with eHighlighting activities
• Demonstrate progress and reach benchmark goals with completed electronic outlines
• Integrate Start-to-Finish Core Content into your curriculum to provide age-appropriate supplemental options that meet the needs of a variety of learners

• Feed students’ curiosity for information. These engaging books relate to the adolescent reader who is reluctant to read independently