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About This Product
Teach Reading Strategies That Work! to empower your students as they develop independent reading skills. This complete resource guide includes a wide variety of practical, hands-on activities that help students use simple techniques to scan, sound out, analyze, and derive meaning from text. A reproducible bookmark with delightful "picture prompts" helps remind students of critical reading strategies as they practice their skills independently. Also included are reproducible word lists, alphabet cards, and record sheets to use along with the activities. Suggestions for parent involvement are provided to encourage students' reading development at home. Use Reading Strategies That Work! along with your current classroom curriculum to make reading both meaningful and memorable for your students.

As students use reading strategies, they will learn

how prior knowledge and experiences support the reading process
how context clues assist comprehension and decoding
how letter patterns and word structures facilitate "word attack"
how and when to use phonetic clues