reading comprehension

Discusses strategies for supporting literacy in students of color, covering classroom set up, scheduling independent reading time, how to support diverse families, and more.

A teacher's guide to developing powerful readers and writers of informational text through project-based instruction.

Provides teachers with visualization strategies, focusing on how to teach students to picture scenes, events, setting, characters, and ideas.

Provides enactment techniques that help students apply their social, physical, and intellectual selves to the books they read to help improve their comprehension.

Presents research and guidelines for K-9 teachers on reading comprehension, providing sample activities, worksheets, assessment tools, and strategies for reading fiction, reading for information, engaging in research, performing tasks, studying, taking tests, improving vocabulary, and developing a lifelong love of reading.

Accompanying CD-ROM contains 32 reproducibles and a study guide.

Presents forty short passages for close reading for first graders, focusing on main ideas and details, fact and opinion, inferences, and more.

Contains twenty-five passages with questions that evaluate a student's understanding and support Common Core State Standards.

Presents forty short passages for close reading for third graders, focusing on main ideas and details, fact and opinion, inferences, and more.