Your students will:

• Use strategies to construct meaning
• Engage in reading, thinking, and talking about the text and strategies
• Integrate strategy use for deeper meaning

Teachers are provided with easy-to-access Strategy Folders with explicit lesson plans for teaching comprehension and text structures. Strategies covered include:

• Predicting
• Questioning
• Making Connections
• Using Text Structure and Text Features
• Visualizing
• Inferring
• Determining Important Ideas and Information
• Synthesizing and Summarizing

Kit includes the Big Cat Whole Group Interactive Texts CD, which makes learning more interactive and engaging through the use of built in tools such as: "Masking" Tool for hiding or chunking texts; "Sticky Note" Tool for annotating texts; "Highlighting and Drawing" Tools for focusing on key areas during instruction.

• 8 Whole Group Strategy Folders with lesson plans and overhead transparencies
• 16 Leveled Student Books to correspond with lessons
• 1 Whole Group CD-ROM with digital texts*
• 1 Big Book of Rhymes B
• 1 Big Book of Nonfiction B
• Teachers' Implementation Guide
• Sturdy Storage Case

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• General classroom instruction/supplemental
  • Whole group (read aloud and shared reading)
  • Small group (guided reading)
  • Independent
• Intervention
• RtI – Response to Intervention
• Differentiated teaching and learning
• After School/Summer School
• Classroom Libraries/Bookrooms
• Technology Integration