Reading in the Content Areas
› Mathematics
› Science
› Social Studies
High-Beginning to High-Intermediate
• Help improve students’ content-area reading
• Focus on one content area at a time
• Coordinate your reading program with content
classrooms
Based on the best-selling Six-Way Paragraphs books, (see
p.106), these individual titles help students master the
essential skills needed to organize, understand, and apply
information in math, science, and social studies. Here are
the books for your content-area classrooms.
Focus on nonfiction reading in the content areas
• Mathematics—consumer and computer topics,
puzzles, math facts
• Science—biology, earth science, physics
• Social studies—history, geography, anthropology
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
