Serafini, Frank

Provides sixty-four effective comprehension lessons designed to help elementary school teachers incorporate reading comprehension into their curriculum.

Month-by-month strategies for running a reading workshop across an entire school year; and provides instructional strategies, how-tos for organizing, ideas for lessons, and assessment and evaluation techniques.

Describes pond plants and animals, and encourage readers to use their imaginations while trying to guess what is featured in close-up photographs.

Up-close photographs and simple text describe the plants, animals, and insects that inhabit a garden.

Extreme close-up photographs challenge readers to guess the identity of the desert plant, animal, or landscape feature it depicts, each followed by a description.

Readers may study close-up views of segments of color photographs and turn the pages to see which rain forest plants or animals are depicted; each with a description.

Up-close photographs and simple text describe the plants, animals, and insects that inhabit a forest.

Up-close photographs and simple text describe the plants, animals, and objects found on a shore.