Teaching reading comprehension with these activities books helps children develop skills that will last a lifetime.
Reading Detective teaches a depth of analysis that guarantees superior reading comprehension, top grades, and top test scores! These higher-order thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. The activities are especially effective at helping students understand inference, cause and effect, and the use of context clues.
Methods
A and B levels both begins with brief lessons that teach specific reading and literary analysis skills. Then students progress into mixed-skills activities involving literature, original fiction, and nonfiction stories. Students read and analyze stories and then answer multiple-choice and short-response questions, citing sentence-level evidence that supports their answers.
Teaching Support
Includes pre-/posttests, guidelines, and answers with detailed evidence.
Paperback book, 246 pages, recommended for 7th-8th grade. |
