Practice of critical reading and thinking skills for below-grade-level readers
These content-area workboks with high-interest, accessible selections offer reinforcement and practice of essential reading skills. The reading levels range in difficulty so you can match lessons to your students' instructional reading levels.
Features
Both narrative and informational reading skills are taught
Skill activities following every section and unit reinforce the same set of essential reading skills and strategies
—identifying main idea and supporting detail
—making generalizations
—determining cause and effect
—drawing conclusions
—recognizing inferences
—using context clues
Many titles blend with the social studies and literature curricula so reading practice is relevant and meaningful.
All of the high-interest selections and over 70% of the history selections are nonfiction and teach informational reading skills.
Preparation for state and national tests
The open-ended and multiple choice questions match the format of state and standardized tests.
Graphic organizers and writing prompts ask students to compare and draw conclusions from several selections.
National and state language arts standards are reflected in the skill activities at the end of each selection and unit.
End-of-unit test items match the format of most state and standardized tests.
Teacher Guides
guided reading lesson plan for each selection
—frontloads vocabulary
—offers critical thinking questions with strategies identified
—provides literacy focus with related literary skill
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