This series is especially designed to quickly improve your students’ ability to understand and retain what they read. The A to D organization of the worktexts provides progressively challenging activities ranging from simple recall to evaluations requiring higher-order thinking skills.
Skills presented are cumulatively reinforced; each worktext reintroduces and builds on skills taught earlier. Equally appropriate as a refresher course for on-level students or as a primary instruction for struggling students.
FEATURES
- Four 64-page worktexts with answer keys
- 28 dynamic lessons in every workbook (112 in all)
- End-of-book tests provide easy progress assessment
- Intriguing reading selections appeal to all ages HIGHLIGHTS
- Confidence-building, two-page format
- Challenging variety of response modes includes those found on standardized tests
- Consistent review and reinforcement of fundamental comprehension skills
- Continuing emphasis on vocabulary development and dictionary practice
- Carefully controlled reading level
- High-interest, nonfiction reading selections
- Critical thinking as a key component of “reading for meaning”
SKILLS COVERED
- following directions
- identifying main idea
- recalling details
- making comparisons
- identifying parts and wholes
- activating prior knowledge
- classifying/categorizing
- identifying cause and effect
- drawing conclusions
- summarizing
- making inferences
- predicting outcomes
- paraphrasing
- making generalizations
- detecting propaganda
- identifying author’s purpose
- • distinguishing facts and opinions
- • using context clues to unlock word meaning