Provides instructional activities for the 12 reading strategies: finding the main idea, recalling facts and ideas, understanding sequence, recognizing cause and effect, comparing and contrasting, making predictions, finding word meaning in context, drawing conclusions and making inferences, distinguishing between fact and opinion, identifying author's purpose, interpreting figurative language, and summarizing. Student workbook accompanies book with metacognitive activities to help students assess their own performance. Passages cover a variety of genres including biographies, folktales, and science and social studies articles. Language arts grade seven.