Books in Reading Detectives series

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.

These highly-effective, literature-based thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. This 192-page activity book is especially effective at helping students in Grades 5-6 understand challenging critical reading concepts such as making inferences, drawing conclusions, determining cause and effect, using context clues to define vocabulary, and making predictions and generalizations. Students answer multiple-choice and short-response questions then provide sentence-level evidence for their answers. Each reproducible book contains goals, pretests and posttests, 50 activities, a glossary of terms, and answers with evidence and detailed explanations.

These highly-effective, literature-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students in Grades 3-4 need for exceptional reading comprehension. This 192-page activity book is especially effective at helping students understand challenging critical reading concepts such as making inferences, drawing conclusions, determining cause and effect, using context clues to define vocabulary, and making predictions and generalizations. Reading detective's standards-based Critical Thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. The activities are especially effective at helping students understand more challenging reading concepts such as drawing inferences, determining cause and effect, and using context clues to define vocabulary.

(Grades 6-12+)The standards-based critical thinking activities of Reading Detective® develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. The activities are especially effective at helping students understand more challenging reading concepts such as drawing inferences, making conclusions, determining cause-and-effect, and using context clues to define vocabulary.Students read and analyze short literature passages and stories that include fiction and nonfiction genres. Then they answer multiple-choice and short-response questions, citing sentence evidence to support their answers. The Grades 6–12+ remedial (Rx) level is organized into single-skill units with a concluding mixed-skills unit and provides an introductory lesson for each skill. (Rx activities are "prescriptive" to help underperforming students in Grades 6–12+ improve their comprehension skills. Reading level is Grades 4–6; story content is Grades 6+.)Teaching SupportIncludes pretests, post-tests, lesson guidelines, and answers with detailed evidence. Reading and literary analysis skills are based on grade-level standards.

Prepare children for the most difficult aspects of their reading test with comprehension exercises that concentrate on developing the key skills of inference and deduction. Prepare children for the most difficult aspects of their reading test with comprehension exercises that concentrate on developing the key skills of inference and deduction. • Set questions that gradually progress pupils’ skills and deeper understanding of a text• Increase vocabulary and reading stamina with extracts from a rich variety of fiction and non-fiction texts• Evaluate your pupils’ responses and help them apply their skills to other texts with guidance from top literacy consultant Rachel Clarke Included texts:Romulus and Remus: Twin Boys who Founded Rome by Geraldine McCaughreanWhen Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith KerrThe Purple Lady by Jamila GavinI am Malala by Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormickThe Visitor by Ian SerraillierThe Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow by Katherine WoodfineArthur: High King of Britain by Michael MorpurgoThe Cloudspotter’s Guide by Gavin Pretor-PinneyFive Children and It by E. NesbitOddiputs by Nicholas FiskAfrica: Eye to Eye with the Unknown by Michael BrightFenn Halflin and the Fearzero by Francesca Armour-CheluCowboy Song by Charles CausleyThe Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes:The Engineer’s Thumb by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe Tempest by William Shakespeare

Prepare children for the most difficult aspects of their reading test with comprehension exercises that concentrate on developing the key skills of inference and deduction. Prepare children for the most difficult aspects of their reading test with comprehension exercises that concentrate on developing the key skills of inference and deduction. • Set questions that gradually progress pupils’ skills and deeper understanding of a text• Increase vocabulary and reading stamina with extracts from a rich variety of fiction and non-fiction texts• Evaluate your pupils’ responses and help them apply their skills to other texts with guidance from top literacy consultant Rachel Clarke Included texts:Mister Tom by Michelle MagorianStreet Child by Berlie DohertyOutlaw: The Story of Robin Hood by Michael MorpurgoEliza Rose by Lucy WorsleyBoy: Tales of Childhood by Roald DahlSport for everyone DK PublishingThe Diary of Anne Frank by Anne FrankThe Roman Record by Paul DowswellCinderella by Roald DahlThe Naming of Cats by T.S. EliotSavitri and Satyavan by Madhur JaffreyLily and the Lion by Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmThe Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian AndersenThe Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler by Gene KempSkellig by David Almond

Prepare children for the most difficult aspects of their reading test with comprehension exercises that concentrate on developing the key skills of inference and deduction. Prepare children for the most difficult aspects of their reading test with comprehension exercises that concentrate on developing the key skills of inference and deduction. • Set questions that gradually progress pupils’ skills and deeper understanding of a text• Increase vocabulary and reading stamina with extracts from a rich variety of fiction and non-fiction texts• Evaluate your pupils’ responses and help them apply their skills to other texts with guidance from top literacy consultant Rachel Clarke