Literacy Skill Builder

Literacy Skill Builder for Grades 6, 7, and 8

The Skill Builder Literacy Program focuses on improving reading skills and building writing proficiency by concentrating on content, style and mechanics.

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All the Tools to Improve Students' Reading and Writing Skills!

Skill Builder assists student learning with small, targeted, focused lessons to help students build skills that will improve their reading and writing.

Targeted Lessons

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• Review: Basic skills are broken down in focused lessons.
• Practice: Guided Practice models student answers to demonstrate how to complete the task.
• Apply: Students complete exercises on their own with the Now You Try It feature.

Engaging Activities

Skill Builder engages struggling students in a variety of ways using activities that can be done individually or in groups and help reinforce the concepts for students.

View the activity (PDF) A Little Something Different.

Complete Teacher Support!

Provides comprehensive support for teachers using the program with implementation and pacing guides, teaching strategies, activity ideas for every lesson and assessments to help monitor student progress easily.

Comprehensive Program

Skill Builder helps target and teach the most essential skills in a complete way using

• program assessment
• targeted lessons
• instructional advice
• activity ideas

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Implementation and planning guide (PDF) outlines program options and pacing based on the most effective use of time and the goal of scaffolding skills.

Instructional Support

Skill Builder for Literacy provides activity ideas that can be used to introduce skills as well as suggestions and probing questions to help students as they work. Targeted strategies for challenging topics and ideas to address the less motivated students are also included.

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Comprehensive Assessment

Skill Builder provides multiple opportunities to assess student performance including Program Pretest, Unit Pre and Post test as well as a Program Post assessment.

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Package Support

Skill Builder for Literacy offers an optional technology component, WriteToLearn™ that gives students immediate, targeted feedback to develop both reading comprehension and writing skills.

• Hundreds of essays and readings are available to support various grade levels.
• Comprehensive feedback is given on content, grammar and mechanics helping students to improve proficiency.
• Comprehensive reporting capabilities help teachers target problem areas for individual learners.

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