Teaching reading comprehension with these activities books helps children develop skills that will last a lifetime.
Click here to see sample pages. With increased focus on literacy in the classroom, it is more important than ever to provide students with interesting reading activities. The reading activities in Theme-Based Reading Comprehension help develop students' phonemic awareness, phonics skills, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. The use of themes increases reading comprehension skills by focusing students' attention on one subject.
Format: Soft Cover, 128 pages 8 ½ x 11 inches
Publisher: Frank Schaffer Publications
Recommended grade: 4th
Use the pages located within each theme as a unit or individually at different times throughout your school year. The themes are based on language arts, math, social studies, science, and arts topics from the appropriate grade level. The activities within each unit reinforce comprehension skills such as finding the main idea, summarizing, inferencing, cloze procedure, compare and contrast, sequencing, cause and effect, story elements, classification, and more. The activities include a variety of multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, short answer, and long answer questions. A standards correlation chart, pre-test, and post-test are included to help assess the progress of your students.
The stories in this book allow students to explore a variety of literature genres from mysteries to poetry, from historical fiction to science fiction. Activities follow each reading passage and build skills in comprehension, drawing conclusions, predicting outcomes, and more. Research-based to incorporate the principles in federal legislation and No Child Left Behind. Cross-curricular themes and reproducible activities.
Frank Schaffer Publications designed the activities in this book to cover essential skills found in standardized tests. Every activity is aligned to state and national standards and designed to improve performance. Through cooperative efforts with Align to Achieve, an independent, non-profit organization, the instructional contents of this book have been correlated to meet or exceed standards for each state as well as national standards. Click here to see a complete list of items available from Frank Schaffer Publications. |
