Introducing the CSI Literacy Library!

The CSI Literacy Library makes all 25 CSI Chapters titles available in one iPad app. It is now available to purchase from the iTunes app store. 
The CSI Literacy Library contains fiction and nonfiction titles that vary in length from 24 to 32 pages. The fiction titles include science fiction, realistic fiction, and financial literacy and social themes. The nonfiction titles are designed to support students’ reading comprehension and vocabulary across science, mathematics, and social studies, as well as general topics.

Each title is equipped with interactive features, such as annotation tools for highlighting and drawing, pop-up glossaries, and video clips, to help you conduct lessons focused on comprehension strategies and vocabulary building.

The CSI Literacy Library app is accompanied by the CSI Chapters Teachers’ Guide to help you prepare lessons. The Teachers’ Guide is free to download, and contains guided reading lessons, shared-reading lessons, and custom-designed graphic organizers.

Want to try it out first? The CSI Literacy Library: Starter app is FREE to download and comes with “Terrifying Beast of the Deep”, an exciting chapter-length text on natural history topics, and a virtual CSI Literacy bookshelf. Start with the free text, then fill your virtual bookshelf as you and your students please with the remaining 24 CSI Literacy Library texts.
You can download your FREE Teacher's Guide here.

Boost comprehension and build reading stamina with CSI Chapters!

Using a metacognitive learning approach to support and scaffold learners, this engaging new chapter book series accelerates comprehension development and vocabulary acquisition while focusing on relevant content areas to increase reading capacity and world knowledge.

CSI Chapters increase in complexity and extent (24-32 pp) as the reading level increases. Click here to see all 25 titles in the series.

The books focus on content literacy, with topics represented in fiction, general nonfiction, mathematics, science, and social studies. 

Students will be motivated to apply their comprehension strategies on graphic novels, poetry, biography, mystery and even financial literacy! 

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All titles also come as e-books, designed for shared and cooperative reading. See below for an example of the digital tools that can be used with each book:



Send us your feedback!

If you have already been teaching the guided reading lessons in CSI Chapters, we would like to hear from you. By sending us your feedback, you can receive a free CSI Chapters 6-pack! Click here.