Making Sense

Reading Level 4–8
Interest Level 6–9

Direct instruction of informational and narrative comprehension skills

Active readers interact with text—asking questions, making predictions, and drawing conclusions. Making Sense has the tools you need to teach reading as a thinking process—high-interest stories, poems, and informational selections with instruction and practice of essential reading skills.

Benefits

• the skills match most state and standardized tests
  —using context clues
  —recognizing the main idea
  —sequencing and summarizing
  —making inferences
  —cross-curricular selections
  —short, engaging reading selections and meaningful activities develop active readers.
  —20 reading selections spanning at least three grade levels and 55 to 60 activities per Student Book.

Teacher Guides

Corresponding Teacher Guides feature

• a reproducible reading inventory
• activities for before, during, and after reading
• a list of related readings
• a Skills Chart with reading levels of selections and an overview of the skills and strategies
• teaching suggestions
• extended activities
• reproducible progress self-checks

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