reading comprehension

Presents a reading comprehension and fluency homework booklet for grades three to six and includes thirty reproducible exercises to enhance reading skills.

To help students read and understand nonfiction with 30 high-interest passages -- encounter different types of nonfiction text -- practice reading illustrations and non-verbal matter -- gain experience with important text structures -- includes follow-up comprehension questions, a graphic organizer, and a writing prompt to yield purposeful homework that's linked to the standards.

Describes specific strategies for answering literal, inferential, and analytical questions that appear on reading comprehension tests, features step-by-step analyses of fiction and nonfiction passages, and includes tips for taking multiple choice exams, as well as advice on test preparation.

Provides information for educators on how to start a READ 'n' FEED program in their junior high schools--an approach to reading in which students read a popular young adult novel and then meet in small groups over lunch or dinner to discuss the book. Includes plans for ten reading units.

Provides instructional strategies aimed at building comprehension skills in struggling readers in third through eighth grade, focusing on summarizing, self-regulating, creating meaningful connections, and inferring.

Discusses six reading comprehension strategies and ways to teach them, with suggested activities and reproducible worksheets. Includes a CD-ROM with reproducibles.

Describes strategies and techniques that teachers can use to help struggling readers, providing scenarios and examples, along with information on reading process systems, the ways that readers solve words, assessment ideas, and related topics.

Contains lessons, strategies, and activities that may be used to teach science concepts in elementary classrooms, each with a related list of literature selections, as well experiments and projects that integrate skills from other areas of the curriculum.