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Critical Reading: Differentiated Instruction Across Genres

Helps you uncover the critical reader inside every student

   

Grade Levels
How much time will it take to teach a complete worktext?

Whole class: 30 minutes, 5 times a week, for 32 weeks
Pull-out class: 60 minutes, once a week, for 32 weeks
Summer School: 60 minutes, 5 days a week, for 8 weeks
For intervention: Use selected lessons as needed

   

100% customized to the TEKS!

Most students do not become critical readers on their own. Critical Reading offers the explicit instruction and practice opportunities students need to move beyond basic comprehension to literary analysis and inferential comprehension—to "read between the lines"— of all kinds of fiction and nonfiction genres.

Eight stand-alone, individual student units at each level each focus on one major critical reading strategy. The research-based, scaffolded instructional model helps students master the focus reading skill as they develop six key facets of critical understanding — explaining, interpreting, and applying what they read, understanding different perspectives, feeling empathy for others, and discerning their own habits and beliefs.

FREE Skills e-Path™ helps you target only the instruction students need with an online pretest, Personal Prescriptive Path™ (P3) reports, and posttest that is 100% customized to the TEKS. Also available is the non-electronic versions of the pretests and posttests and the P3 forms in the TE.

  • Allows fast, flexible use with individual consumable student units for each strategy
  • Ensures mastery with scaffolded instruction and plenty of practice
  • Builds oral reading fluency through modeling and practice
  • Supports differentiated instruction with assessments that resemble the TAKS
  • Saves time and effort and supports English Language Learners with annotated, wraparound TE and online assessment

Lexile Levels for Critical Reading:

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Sample Pages from Critical Reading for Texas:





Student Sample Lesson
Teacher Edition Sample

Individual Student Units Include

  • Author's Purpose
  • Setting (Levels C and D)
  • Plot (Levels C and D)
  • Setting and Plot (Level E)
  • Characters
  • Main Idea and Theme
  • Drawing Conclusions (Level C)
  • Making Inferences (Levels D and E)
  • Text Organization
  • Point of View (Level C)
  • Author's Viewpoint (Levels D and E)
  • Mood (Level E)