Six-Way Paragraphs
in the Content Areas
Reading Levels 4-12, Interest Levels 6-12
Develop key strategies for comprehending content-area textbooks
- Improve state test performance with questions in standardized test format
- Coordinate your reading program with content classrooms
- Build comprehension strategies to support content-area
reading
An addition to the best-selling Six-Way Paragraphs series, Six-Way
Paragraphs in the Content Areas helps students master the essential skills needed to
organize, understand, and apply information in math, science, social studies,
and the humanities. Students are engaged with a wide variety of readings
in each content-area. Four reading levels in each book with 25 passages at
each level improve reading skills and ensure mastery.
Focus on nonfiction reading in the content areas
- Social Studies—history, geography, anthropology
- Science—biology, earth science, physics
- Mathematics—consumer and computer topics, puzzles, math facts
Focus on essential skills for understanding content-area selections
- Main idea
- Subject matter
- Supporting details
- Conclusion
- Clarifying devices
- Vocabulary in context
Focus on diagnosis
- Diagnostic charts help students pinpoint areas to strengthen.
- Progress graphs help students visualize their improvement.
