The Educational Forum points out that students enter a significant transition when they begin fourth grade. They are no longer “learning to read,” but are “reading to learn.” During this transition, some students struggle with the new content area texts they are expected to read (2009).

Now, with Plugged-in to Nonfiction, you can intervene before your 4th- and 5th-grade students get left behind. This program contains lessons that teach effective strategies students can use to comprehend textbooks and other nonfiction across all content areas.

The program features:

• Authentic, high-interest nonfiction texts like Hana’s Suitcase and Rescues.
• Lessons that teach strategies such as monitoring understanding, activating background knowledge, and using specialized vocabulary.
• Audiobooks as a scaffold for fluency and pronunciation.
• The gradual release of responsibility model that takes students from whole-class instruction, to peer-supported learning, to independent learning.

For more information, please contact your local sales representative, browse the website, or check out our FAQ.

Download an audio sample of one of the Grade 4/5 Core Novels, Rescues!
Rescues! by Sandra Markle – Saving Elvis 3:31

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