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Digging Reading

Digging Reading is a 13-week curriculum geared toward students in grades 4 and 5, designed to teach nine reading strategies that will help students better understand, learn, and remember what they read. Teacher Materials (Teacher’s Guide, instructional DVD, posters, and transparencies) as well as Student Materials (activity books, quizzes, and tests) are included. In five units, students learn reading strategies and practice them through activities and the interactive reading of four trade books, which need to be purchased separately.

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Activity Books
The Activity Books are designed with plenty of student appeal! Thematic illustrations enhance the activities, whether students are reading a passage, working with a partner, or recording their ideas.

Posters
Full-color posters, all with an archaeology theme, provide visual reminders of the strategies and how to use them.

Quizzes
Each week of instruction ends with a quiz. The short, 5-question quizzes at the end of Weeks 1 and 2 test only the strategy of the week. Week 3 concludes with a 10-question quiz on all the strategies taught thus far. There are 11 quizzes in all.

Teacher's Guide
The Teacher's Guide describes all the lessons in detail. It includes answers to the Activity Book pages and references to video segments in the DVD.

Transparencies
The transparencies are used to model the strategies, stimulate thinking, and gather class input.

DVD
The DVD explains the crucial concepts underlying the lessons and provides video demonstrations of instructional techniques such as modeling and guided practice.