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Preview Lessons
Help ensure reading comprehension success with lessons that teach students to set a purpose for
reading, identify various text types and structures, and preview test questions to more efficiently
read and respond to text.
Using a preview strategy helps make reading more efficient and effective when
students are reading for a purpose, such as answering test questions on
high-stakes tests that often have time constraints.
Explicit instruction means that students learn to appropriately apply text-previewing strategies
across a range of texts and are better able to access and understand the content they are
reading in order to answer questions.
How To Use Preview Lessons
Each preview lesson focuses on a discrete skill, such as identifying text features or
text structure, and follows a similar instructional approach of model, practice, and assess.
Step-by-step instructions and a sample dialog section called I Do, We Do, You Do helps
teachers ease students into taking more responsibility for their own learning.
Grade-range appropriate student resources in printable and projectable formats for
each lesson provide the tools necessary for whole-class, small-group, or independent
practice of each skill.
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Identify Text Types
Students learn to recognize five types of texts commonly found on high-stakes tests in order to quickly identify strategies to read them efficiently and effectively.
Students learn how to use each text feature when reading to deepen their understanding of an informational text's organization, important information, and overall meaning.
Previewing test questions helps students quickly find answers as they read a text in detail. Specific strategies help students manage their time to answer quickly and accurately.
Text feature walks provide students with a preview strategy to identify the parts of an informational text that help them understand the text's organization, important information within the text, and make connections to prior knowledge before reading a text.
Students learn to recognize five types of texts commonly found on high-stakes tests in order to quickly identify strategies to read them efficiently and effectively.
Students learn how to use each text feature when reading to deepen their understanding of an informational text's organization, important information, and overall meaning.
Previewing test questions helps students quickly find answers as they read a text in detail. Specific strategies help students manage their time to answer quickly and accurately.
Text feature walks provide students with a preview strategy to identify the parts of an informational text that help them understand the text's organization, important information within the text, and make connections to prior knowledge before reading a text.
Students learn to recognize five types of texts commonly found on high-stakes tests in order to quickly identify strategies to read them efficiently and effectively.
Students learn how to use each text feature when reading to deepen their understanding of an informational text's organization, important information, and overall meaning.
Previewing test questions helps students quickly find answers as they read a text in detail. Specific strategies help students manage their time to answer quickly and accurately.
Text feature walks provide students with a preview strategy to identify the parts of an informational text that help them understand the text's organization, important information within the text, and make connections to prior knowledge before reading a text.