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Ensures daily reading for content mastery in just 15 minutes a day

Start-to-Finish Content Connect is an instructional framework designed to work hand-in-hand with Start-to-Finish Core Content informational books.

Explicit step-by-step lessons help teachers provide daily content-area reading strategy instruction to accelerate content mastery.

Only 15 Minutes a Day but Huge Benefits!

Students learn and apply strategies for 15 minutes a day with Start-to-Finish Core Content books and other content-area texts. As your students gain content area reading skills, they will also learn to how to apply them in novel contexts.

Content Connect is perfect for special education, summer school programs, content-area classrooms, extended-day and intervention group settings.

Start-to-Finish Content Connect and Core Content books provide everything you need to explicitly instruct your learners in when, where, why and how to use a powerful cluster of reading comprehension strategies including:

• Activating and building background knowledge
  
• Formulating and answering questions
  
• Setting a purpose for learning
  
• Making connections to self, text and the world
  
• Responding to text in personally meaningful ways
  
• Collaborative, interactive learning
  
• Metacognitive reflection (students monitor and assess their own learning and performance)

Benefits for Students

• Build reading comprehension strategies
  
• Master content by consistently applying comprehension strategies
  
• Acquire life-long skills through practice and repetition

Benefits for Teachers

• Ready-to-go lessons for teaching reading comprehension strategies
  
• Ensure content area reading is taught systematically through research-based methods
  
• Improve consistency of implementation – step-by-step lessons are explicit and transferable
  
• Maximise content mastery and reading comprehension with Start-to-Finish Core Content and other informational books

Content Connect includes scripted lesson plans in two spiral-bound guides:

• The Strategy Instruction Guide is designed for five 45-minute periods of explicit strategy instruction. It offers teachers and program directors a step-by-step framework with which to implement a content area reading program and assess progress.

  This program guides you how to:
  

  • Teach content area reading strategies
    
  • Choose reading materials
    
  • Prepare for strategy instruction
    
  • Facilitate question and answer sessions
    
  • Improve learning and teaching through formative assessment
    
  • Implement an Administrator Walkthrough

  Download a sample lesson from the Strategy Instruction Guide (1.8 MB)

• The Daily Instruction Guide is designed for 15-minute daily strategy application throughout the school year. It offers you a framework to implement strategy instruction 15 minutes a day and provides a number of reproducible blackline masters.

  This guide helps you:
  

  • Get the big picture using the previewing strategy
    
  • Build background knowledge through vocabulary
    
  • Read and connect using the questioning strategy
    
  • Discover information through independent reading

  Download a sample lesson from the Daily Instruction Guide (3.5 MB)
  

• Online downloadable Draft:Builder template: Questions, Facts, Connections

View/Download

• Start-to-Finish Content Connect Scope and Sequence Table of Contents (1.8 MB)
  
• Start-to-Finish Content Connect Research Basis (1.7 MB)

Prices

	Code	Media	Platform	$NZ Price	$NZ GST
	Start-to-Finish Content Connect - Single Set
	DJPS03	Book, Resource		$280.00	$42.00