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.

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.

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 forest.

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