An effective resource for improving young students' comprehension skills With 100 high-interest reading activities, this book is designed to help students gain fundamental comprehension skills so they can succeed in reading complex and varied types of texts. Each lesson includes a brief reading selection followed by questions, multiple-choice selections, and thinking and writing activities. The activities, all on reproducible worksheets, can be used to give individual students or groups extra practice, or as supplemental skill-building and test-prep activities for the full class. * Activities are grouped within seven units, each focusing on an important aspect of comprehension * Units increase in difficulty level so that students gain proficiency as they work through the material * High-interest themes include stories about robots, animal helpers, space, and famous people * Offers activities that build the advanced cognitive skills called for in the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) Each lesson includes a teacher section with guidance on how to introduce the activities to students and support them in their reading practices.
- ISBN10 6612550783
- ISBN13 9786612550782
- Publish Date 18 March 2010 (first published 1 January 2010)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 28 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons
- Format eBook
- Pages 483
- Language English