Books in Comprehension Skills series

According to the Common Core State Standards, students should be able to read closely to determine what a text says explicitly, make logical references from it, and cite specific textual evidence to support conclusions drawn from the text.Each of the 40 short, fiction and nonfiction passages in this collection includes companion comprehension questions that target these critical reading skills and give students the repeated practice they need to build mastery in identifying main idea and details, using context clues, distinguishing between fact and opinion, and more. For use with Grade 2.

Great diagnostic tool! Improve comprehension, reading achievement test scores, and subject area skills. Sixty activities focus on six skill areas: facts, sequence, context, main idea, conclusion, and inference. This series isolates these comprehension skills and practice provides in the context of reading selections in such areas as science, social studies, history, sports, and the arts.

Great diagnostic tool! Improve comprehension, reading achievement test scores, and subject area skills. Sixty activities focus on six skill areas: facts, sequence, context, main idea, conclusion, and inference. This series isolates these comprehension skills and practice provides in the context of reading selections in such areas as science, social studies, history, sports, and the arts.

Spend more time teaching to each student's needs while the computer takes care of tracking progress Improve fiction and nonfiction comprehension Customize instruction for each student with computerized placement test Move beyond skill-and-drill with integrated writing activities This innovative program helps students devote effort to only those specific comprehension skills that give them trouble. The computerized testing system diagnoses weaknesses and prescribes proper placement in Comprehension Skills books. While the computer manages the data, you can concentrate on instruction, expanding comprehension skills with a five-part lesson plan proven to succeed. Computerized follow-up testing tracks progress by comparing "before" and "after" results.

This easy-to-use workbook features reproducible exercises that will help increase your students' ability to gather information from texts. Worksheets feature short passages followed by a number of comprehension questions that will help students build mastery in identifying main idea and details, using context clues, distinguishing between fact and opinion, making inferences, and other grade-appropriate skills. 40 non-fiction passages used. 48 classroom -reproducible pages, softcover. Line-listed answer key provided. Aligned to Common Core State Standards. This Scholastic Comprehension Skills Complete Workbooks Set includes 6 Books: 1. Comprehension Skills: Short Passages for Close Reading: Grade 1 9780545460521 2. Comprehension Skills: Short Passages for Close Reading: Grade 2 9780545460538 3. Comprehension Skills: Short Passages for Close Reading: Grade 3 9780545460545 4. Comprehension Skills: Short Passages for Close Reading: Grade 4 9780545460552 5. Comprehension Skills: Short Passages for Close Reading: Grade 5 9780545460569 6. Comprehension Skills: Short Passages for Close Reading: Grade 6 9780545460576

Spend more time teaching to each student's needs while the computer takes care of tracking progress Improve fiction and nonfiction comprehension Customize instruction for each student with computerized placement test Move beyond skill-and-drill with integrated writing activities This innovative program helps students devote effort to only those specific comprehension skills that give them trouble. The computerized testing system diagnoses weaknesses and prescribes proper placement in Comprehension Skills books. While the computer manages the data, you can concentrate on instruction, expanding comprehension skills with a five-part lesson plan proven to succeed. Computerized follow-up testing tracks progress by comparing "before" and "after" results.

Spend more time teaching to each student's needs while the computer takes care of tracking progress Improve fiction and nonfiction comprehension Customize instruction for each student with computerized placement test Move beyond skill-and-drill with integrated writing activities This innovative program helps students devote effort to only those specific comprehension skills that give them trouble. The computerized testing system diagnoses weaknesses and prescribes proper placement in Comprehension Skills books. While the computer manages the data, you can concentrate on instruction, expanding comprehension skills with a five-part lesson plan proven to succeed. Computerized follow-up testing tracks progress by comparing "before" and "after" results.

Spend more time teaching to each student's needs while the computer takes care of tracking progress Improve fiction and nonfiction comprehension Customize instruction for each student with computerized placement test Move beyond skill-and-drill with integrated writing activities This innovative program helps students devote effort to only those specific comprehension skills that give them trouble. The computerized testing system diagnoses weaknesses and prescribes proper placement in Comprehension Skills books. While the computer manages the data, you can concentrate on instruction, expanding comprehension skills with a five-part lesson plan proven to succeed. Computerized follow-up testing tracks progress by comparing "before" and "after" results.

Meet state-specific standards with this unique approach to comprehension! The focus is comprehension; the vehicle is poetry! Explicit teaching instructions make it easy for every teacher to introduce students to poetry in a non-threatening environment. Readers are asked to respond to multiple-choice comprehension questions presented in standardized test format, plus one short answer question. Correlated to state-specific standards, the poems and comprehension activities that follow prepare students for standardized tests that include poetry in the reading assessment sections. Three Things You Need to Know About This Series ? This unique poetry series focuses first on basic comprehension skills through the use of standard, multiple-choice formatted questions. ? Poems and activities have been selected and designed to meet state-specific standards identified on page 5 of each book. ? Teacher's instructions are systematic and explicit, making it easy to introduce and incorporat