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In response to the overwhelming demand for more high-quality, age-appropriate nonfiction texts, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis have developed the three-volume series Toolkit Texts: Short Nonfiction for Guided and Independent Practice. Designed around articles from popular children's magazines and personally adapted by Stephanie and Anne, these volumes provide engaging supplementary texts that are precisely matched to the strategies taught in The Comprehension Toolkit.
The Toolkit Texts volumes have been developed in collaboration with Carus Publishing, the creator of numerous magazines for children including Cobblestone, Click, Ask, Faces, and many others. All three volumes share the same instructional features.
- The articles focus on high-interest topics that engage students and help develop strong readers while also building background knowledge in numerous content areas.
- The articles include an array of features typical of informational texts such as diagrams, charts, maps, and timelines.
- The articles give students an opportunity to read and process the kinds of passages typically found on state tests.
- The teacher notes at the beginning of each book describe effective ways the articles can be used to practice the strategies in The Comprehension Toolkit.
Each level of Toolkit Texts provides a library of short nonfiction texts in a reproducible format. Each level also includes a Toolkit Texts CD-ROM that provides all of texts in a full color format that is ideal for making transparencies. All of these full-color texts are provided in English and Spanish.
Toolkit Texts: The Three-Volume Series
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- Contents and Overview of Texts
- Correlation Chart to Strategies from The Comprehension Toolkit
- Sample Text — "Animal Ears: Adaptations for Hearing"
Ears vary greatly in size, shape, and ability, and have a range of uses including finding food, beating the heat, and warning of danger.
- Sample Text — "Riding the Rails"
Close-up photographs with labels and sharp detail illustrate this informative article on trains. The factual captions and small chunks of information are as exciting as the pictures.
- Sample Text — "Flying High"
Learn about how the Japanese celebrate Children's Day, the holiday honoring kids.
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- Contents and Overview of Texts
- Correlation Chart to Strategies from The Comprehension Toolkit
- Sample Text — "Amazing Antartica"
Students can practice their map-reading skills as, they learn about the coldest, windiest place on Earth.
- Sample Text — "A Magical Pen"
This play whisks us to Monticello, where an elderly Thomas Jefferson is telling the story of the Declaration of Independence to his grandchildren.
- Sample Text — "Rain Forest Hero"
Janine Licare is helping save the rain forest. And she has a web site where readers can learn more and maybe even make a difference themselves.
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- Contents and Overview of Texts
- Correlation Chart to Strategies from The Comprehension Toolkit
- Sample Text — "All Wrapped Up: The Many Tasks of Mummy Makers"
You probably know that mummies are preserved dead bodies wrapped in cloth. But you might not know how many steps and how many people were involved in making mummies.
- Sample Text — "How Do We Taste"
From the five basic tastes—sweet, salty, sour, savory, bitter—come all the flavors we humans know and love. But how do we taste them? Find out!
- Sample Text — "Tornado!"
This article explains the science behind tornadoes, how to stay safe, and strange-but-true tales from real twisters.
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