Engaging fiction and nonfiction paired in each book
These easy-reading chapter books offer accessible, high-interest fiction paired with nonfiction to smooth the transition from narrative to expository text. The sophisticated look and highly appealing, grade-appropriate topics are perfect for students in grades 2 to 6.
Benefits
- Short chapters, carefully chosen vocabulary, and close text/illustration matches support struggling readers.
- Curricular-aligned topics teach important content while developing content-area literacy skills.
- Fiction captures interest and engages students, creating active readers.
- Important nonfiction text features support content-area literacy
—sidebars
—historical photographs and illustrations
—heads and subheads
—glossary and index
Teacher ToolKit CD
All the resources and reproducibles you need to teach comprehension and vocabulary skills for the five books in a Theme Set—skill practice, strategy practice and instruction, and formative and summative assessment.
- one resource for each title in a Theme Set
- 75 to 150 reproducible activities
- an interactive skills chart—match students' needs with direct links
- objective tests to help you assess vocabulary and literal and inferential comprehension
- cross-curricular activities
- inquiry strategies
- strategies for ESL learners
- before-, during-, and after-reading strategies
Theme Set
- 30 softcover books (6 each of the 5 titles)
- A Teacher Tool Kit CD
- A Theme Resource
- A FREE durable storage box
Books Sampler
Includes 1 softcover copy of each title and a Teacher ToolKit CD.
LIST OF THEMES
Select a theme below to view titles and ordering information.
The American Revolution
Ancient Civilizations
Animal Adventures I
Animal Adventures II
Animal Adventures: In the Air
Animal Adventures: On the Land
Animal Facts
Animal Giants
The Civil War
Early America
Historical Toys
In the Past
Kooties Club Mysteries
Life's Lessons
Making a Difference
On the Prairie
Read and Learn
Settling the West I
Settling the West II
The guided reading levels have been assigned using the guidelines identified in GUIDED READING and MATCHING BOOKS TO READERS by Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell (Heinemann). |
Chapter Books
