Making Sense <show description>
Active readers don’t just read, they interact with what they read—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 covered mirror those needed for success on most standardized tests, including:
—using context clues
—recognizing the main idea
—sequencing and summarizing
—making inferences
—setting a purpose for reading
—analyzing cause-effect relationships
• The Student Books feature content-area readings in language arts, social studies, and science. Over half of the selections are nonfiction.
• The short, engaging reading selections and activities can be completed in one class period.
• Each Student Book features 20 reading selections spanning at least three grade levels and approximately 55 to 60 activities.
• Selections can be chosen by reading level or genre.
TEACHER GUIDES
• a reproducible reading inventory
• an answer key
• activities for before, during, and after reading
• a Skills Chart
• teaching suggestions
• extended activities
• reproducible progress self-checks
• a list of related readings
“The “Think-Along” exercises in Making Sense are wonderful for active reading. The children love how they can express feelings as they read. The reading selections are varied and the graphic organizers give the children a wide experience.”
E. Madden, Resource Room Teacher
School of the Holy Child
Proud to be Canadian
