Strategies for Study Success, Highlighting I, is designed to build reading comprehension and active reading skills. Students develop independent study skills by learning to identify three important elements when reading: the topic, main idea, and important details. This book focuses on the pictorial level, teaching students how to find and highlight the topic, main idea, and important details so that …

Strategies for Study Success, Highlighting II, helps students build reading comprehension and active reading skills using passages with basic text. Students develop independent study skills by learning to identify three important elements when reading: the topic, main idea, and important details. This book begins at the pictorial level and proceeds to passages with basic text, teaching students how to find …

Strategies for Study Success, Highlighting III, helps students build reading comprehension and active reading skills using passages with increasing levels of text. Students develop independent study skills by learning to identify three important elements when reading: the topic, main idea, and important details. This book follows Highlighting I and Highlighting II, beginning with basic passages and proceeding gradually to passages …

Strategies for Study Success, Highlighting IV, is the newest addition to the highlighting series. This workbook teaches students how to identify and highlight the topic, main idea, and important details of advanced passages at the middle school level. Students also learn to differentiate between explicit and implicit questions when answering multiple choice questions after each passage. This book builds reading …

Strategies for Study Success, Highlighting V, is the most advanced level of the highlighting series. This workbook teaches students how to identify and highlight the topic, main idea, and important details of advanced passages at the middle-high school level. Students also learn to write effective written responses in essay format after each passage. This book builds reading comprehension, active reading, …

In this multi-sensory workbook, students will learn how to express their thoughts in the form of well-written sentences. They will first learn to differentiate between a complete and incomplete thought. They will then learn the parts of a sentence and different types of sentences, as well as how to expand sentences and write compound sentences. Approximate grade levels: 1-4

Simple Paragraphs Strategies for Study Success, Simple Paragraphs, teaches students how to brainstorm, write, and self-check simple paragraphs using a systematic approach. Students learn how to organize and develop these simple paragraphs, which are composed of a topic sentence, three details, and a conclusion sentence. Approximate grade levels: 1-2

Strategies for Study Success, Extended Paragraphs, teaches students how to brainstorm, write, and self-check extended paragraphs using a systematic approach. Students learn to extend their simple paragraphs, composed of a topic sentence, three details, and a conclusion sentence, into an extended paragraph, with nine additional supporting details. Approximate grade levels: 3-4

Strategies for Study Success, Five Paragraph Essays, teaches students how to brainstorm, write, and self-check five paragraph essays. Students learn how to develop well-organized essays using a step-by-step, systematic approach. They are given extensive practice structuring each part of the essay, including the introduction paragraph (composed of the Opening, Lead-In, and Thesis Statement), three body paragraphs, and the conclusion paragraph. …

The Strategies for Study Success two-part note taking series is designed to build independent note taking strategies. Strategies for Study Success, Column-Style Note taking, teaches students how to create column-style diagrams for in-class and independent note taking. Students are taught to identify and highlight the topic, main ideas, and important details of various passages and to transfer that information into …

Strategies for Study Success, Column-Style Note Taking II teaches students how to create column-style diagrams for in-class and independent note taking, using higher level passages. Students are taught to identify and highlight the topic, main ideas, and important details of higher level, high interest passages, then transfer that information into column-style note taking diagrams.

Strategies for Study Success, Webbing, teaches students how to create web diagrams for in-class and independent note taking. Students are taught to identify and highlight the topic, main ideas, and important details of various passages and to transfer that information into a web diagram. Approximate grade levels: 3-5

Strategies for Study Success, Outlining, teaches students how to create outlines for in-class and independent note taking. Students are taught to identify and highlight the topic, main ideas, and important details of various passages and to transfer that information into an outline form. Approximate grade levels: 4-6

Strategies for Study Success Summarizing I, is designed to build reading comprehension, attention-to-detail, and listening skills. The exercises in this book build independent study skills by teaching students how to summarize text and edit these summaries for missing information. With enough repetition of the exercises in this book, students should gain automaticity in their attention-to-details and paraphrasing skills. Learning to …

Strategies for Study Success Summarizing II, is designed to build reading comprehension, attention-to-detail, and listening skills. The exercises in this book follow the same structure as the exercises in Summarizing I, using passages at a more advanced level. Students build independent study skills by learning how to summarize text and edit these summaries for missing information. Approximate grade levels: 3-5

Strategies for Success, Visualizing Text, helps students build reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. Learning to visualize text is an important study skills strategy for academic success. Research indicates that most students with reading comprehension skills automatically visualize as they read. Many students, however, need this strategy systematically taught to them. By practicing the step-by-step, picture-by-picture exercises in this book, …