Teaching Students to Read Informational Texts―Independently!: 30 Step-by-Step Strategy Lessons That Scaffold Essential Common Core Reading Skills to . Tackle Informational Texts on Their Own

Model lessons and engaging activities help students apply research-based reading strategies to informational texts so that they can read and comprehend complex texts. Students will learn these key reading strategies:

• finding key details
• determining main idea
• locating text evidence to support an answer
• using text features
• understanding text structure
• summarizing text
• asking and answering questions
• and much more!

Armed with these reading skills, students can successfully tackle complex informational texts and really become independent readers. For use with Grades 3-5.

Nancy Witherell is a professor in the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education at Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, where she teaches literacy courses and is Coordinator of Student Teachers for the department. Nancy is Past President of her local reading council, the Massachusetts Association of College and University Reading Educators, and the Massachusetts Reading Association (MRA). She is currently MRA s State Co-coordinator for the International Literacy Association (formerly IRA). Nancy has presented at numerous regional and national conferences. Besides the publication of numerous articles in such journals as The New England Reading Association Journal and The Reading Teacher, Nancy has co-authored seven books and solo-authored two books.