reading comprehension

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.

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

Presents forty short passages for close reading for fourth graders, focusing on main ideas and details, fact and opinion, context clues, and more.

Offers strategies and techniques for understanding the thinking work that goes into comprehending texts, covering how to move students to more complex material, building readers' identity, and thoroughly engage learners with the written word.