Grade 5 | EDUCATION

Read, Reflect, Respond

Elliott Quinley
  • Product Code SERIES ( MR #059756 )
Research-based Nonfiction Comprehension Skill-Boosters

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

  • Copyright 2006