With 100 high-interest reading activities, this book is designed to help students gain fundamental comprehension skills so they can succeed in reading complex and varied types of texts. Each lesson includes a brief reading selection followed by questions, multiple-choice selections, and thinking and writing activities. The activities, all on reproducible worksheets, can be used to give individual students or groups extra practice, or as supplemental skill-building and test-prep activities for the full class.
- Activities are grouped within seven units, each focusing on an important aspect of comprehension
- Units increase in difficulty level so that students gain proficiency as they work through the material
- High-interest themes include stories about robots, animal helpers, space, and famous people
- Offers activities that build the advanced cognitive skills called for in the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP)
Each lesson includes a teacher section with guidance on how to introduce the activities to students and support them in their reading practices.
With 100 high-interest reading activities, this book is designed to help students gain fundamental comprehension skills so they can succeed in reading complex and varied types of texts. Each lesson includes a brief reading selection followed by questions, multiple-choice selections, and thinking and writing activities. The activities, all on reproducible worksheets, can be used to give individual students or groups extra practice, or as supplemental skill-building and test-prep activities for the full class.
- Activities are grouped within seven units, each focusing on an important aspect of comprehension
- Units increase in difficulty level so that students gain proficiency as they work through the material
- High-interest themes include stories about robots, animal helpers, space, and famous people
- Offers activities that build the advanced cognitive skills called for in the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP)
Each lesson includes a teacher section with guidance on how to introduce the activities to students and support them in their reading practices.
Reading Comprehension Boosters: 100 Lessons for Building Higher-Level Literacy, Grades 3-5
480Reading Comprehension Boosters: 100 Lessons for Building Higher-Level Literacy, Grades 3-5
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780470399927 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 04/19/2010 |
Series: | Jossey-Bass Teacher |
Pages: | 480 |
Product dimensions: | 8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 1.10(d) |