A wide variety of fiction designed for struggling readers
Choose from historical and biographical fiction, contemporary fiction, mystery, sports, humor, and more to meet the interests of all of your striving readers.
Benefits
- Exciting plots and fully developed narratives engage reluctant readers.
- Carefully chosen vocabulary, natural-sounding dialogue, and manageable chapter lengths ensure reading success.
- Sophisticated covers, trim size, and design make books appealing to upper elementary and middle school readers.
- Multicultural characters and a wide variety of fictional genres offer choices for all students.
- Relevant topics and themes are perfect for English Language Learners.
- Historical and biographical novels enhance the social studies curriculum.
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.
Adventure
Biographical Fiction
Cody Smith Mysteries
Coming of Age
Contemporary Fiction
David's Adventures
Days Gone By
Fantasy
The Five Winters Series
Friendship
Historical Fiction I
Historical Fiction II
Historical Fiction III
Just for Laughs
Life on the Prairie
Mystery
Sports
World War 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). |
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