Survival Reading Skills for Secondary Students is your guide
for working with struggling students in grades 5-12 no matter what
their reading ability. This valuable resource is a down-to-earth
guide that contains countless classroom-tested strategies that
reading and content area teachers can use to reinforce skills that
students must master to read effectively. In addition, the book
offers ready-to-use activity sheets designed to improve competency
in a number of relevant reading skills. Students will learn how to
fill in a job application, read an airline schedule, apply for a
driver's license, and practice many more useful real-life skills.

For quick access and easy use, the book is organized in seven
sections and printed in a big 8 ½" X 11" lay-flat format for
easy photocopying. The following is just a small sample of the many
strategies, assessments, inventories, and activities featured in
each section:

1. INFORMAL READING ASSESSMENT TOOLS FOR OLDER STUDENTS:
Includes a Content Reading Inventory. . . lists of sample words
from a range of content areas including English, social studies,
science, and mathematics&an informal assessment to determine a
student's approximate instructional reading level.

2. STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR IMPROVING SKILLS TO IDENTIFY
CONTENT SIGHT WORDS: Provides reproducible copies of words
needed for computer literacy . . . strategies for improving
students' ability to recognize and identify important content and
daily-living words . . . activities that include a reversed
crossword puzzle and a magic square from science.

3. STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR IMPROVING BASIC PHONIC
SKILLS: Contains the basic phonic elements in which older
students should be competent . . . seven helpful phonic
generalizations . . . activity sheets that challenge students to
complete a shopping list and discover a secret code.

4. STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR IMPROVING ABILITY IN WORD
STRUCTURE: Includes an explanation of the usefulness of word
roots, prefixes, and suffixes . . . comprehensive lists of the most
useful elements of word structure that help students read and study
content materials effectively . . . activity sheets that help
students determine word etymologies and correct accents.

5. STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR IMPROVING USE OF CONTEXT
CLUES: Presents a useful classification scheme for context
clues . . . method of teaching context clues, cryptology, and
mutilated messages . . . activities that direct students to choose
the correct word in sentence context.

6. STRATEGIES AND MATERIALS FOR IMPROVING COMPREHENSION
SKILLS WHILE READING CONTENT MATERIAL: Contains an explanation
of levels of reading comprehensiontextually explicit, textually
implicit, and critical or evaluative . . . myriad classroom-tested
strategies for improving comprehension . . . activity sheets that
engage students to figure out which is the better invention and
complete a job application form.

7. STRATEGIES AND MATERIALS FOR IMPROVING STUDY SKILLS IN THE
CONTENT AREAS: Offers a description of the specialized study
skills that students need to read specific content material . . . a
multitude of classroom-tested strategies for improving study skills
. . . activities that help students to use the Dewey Decimal System
and read the newspaper more effectively.