- Strategies are for reading levels A to Z.
- Each goal has its own super-organized table of contents, ordered by increasing reading level.
- Each page is set up the same way. Each page tells relevant reading levels and text types are appropriate to be used with the strategy, which smaller skills can be tied in, and additional tips. Servallo even gives you child-appropriate language and prompts to use when teaching.
- Each page provides some sort of visual aid, whether it’s student work or an anchor chart.
- Use it with a whole group, a small group, or one-on-one. The possibilities are endless!
Cons:
- Fiction chapters cover plot, characters, and themes. Nonfiction goals involve main idea, key details, and text features. This means that some smaller reading skills are either missing or hard to find relevant strategies for practice. Some skills that I have found to be lacking include identifying genres and understanding cause and effect.
- You won’t find common core standards listed anywhere in this book. Of course, that’s only a con if your district heavily emphasizes the CCS.
I already loved my Reading Strategies Book, but then I found these tabs for free on TPT. Now I love this resource even more! I printed them on cardstock, laminated, cut, then just used clear packing tape to attach them.
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