CSI offers 40 diverse, contemporary short texts across the content areas of English language arts, science, math, and social studies.
They can be displayed using acetate sheets on an overhead projector, but it is preferable, to highlight the interaction, that they are projected from the CD-ROM. This can be done using a data projector projected onto an interactive whiteboard or any other suitable screen-like surface. This method is much more likely to engage and motivate students.
Students are able to encounter grade-level texts and reading challenges from a diverse range of materials, including magazines, popular contemporary novels, and classic texts.
Text types include:
Persuasive, recounts, reports, essays, narratives, explanatory, procedural, articles, biographies, and autobiographies, compare and contrast, sequential, cause and effect, problem and solution, enumerative, and descriptive.
CSI offers 80 texts per grade level, 32 of which are for English language arts (16 fiction and 16 nonfiction), 16 for math literacy, 16 for science literacy, and 16 for social studies literacy.
CSI includes a Whole-Group Interactive Texts CD-ROM, which provides teachers with an easy-to-use, attractive interface with embedded functions (such as glossaries, picture glossaries, video clips, and tools to mask and highlight specific areas of text) that aid instruction and support students during reading. This technology supports the needs of 21st-century students, yet takes into account that not all classrooms have access to the same level of technology.
Each piece in CSI has been specifically linked to national content standards.
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