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Read! Reflect! Respond!
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This series is especially designed to quickly improve your student's ability to understand and retain what they read. The A to D organization of the worktexts provide progressively challenging activities ranging from simple recall to evaluations requiring higher-order thinking skills taught earlier.
Equally appropriate as a refresher course for on-level students or as primary instruction for struggling students.
FEATURES:
- Four 64-page worktexts with answer keys.
- 28 dynamic lessons in every worktext --112 in all!
- End of book tests provide easy progress assessment.
- Intriguing reading selections appeal to students of all ages.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Confidence building, two page format
- Challenging variety of response modes includes those found on standardized tests
- Consistent review and reinforcement of fundamental comprehension skills
- Continuing emphasis on vocabulary development and dictionary practice
- Carefully controlled reading level
- High-Interest, nonfiction reading selections
- Critical thinking as a key component of "reading for meaning"
SKILLS COVERED (examples):
- Following Directions
- Summarizing
- Identifying main Idea
- Making Inferences
- Recalling Details
- Predicting Outcomes
- Making Comparisons
- Paraphrasing
- Identifying parts and wholes
- Making Generalizations
- Activating prior knowledge
- Detecting Propaganda
- Classifying/Categorizing
- Identifying Author's Purpose
- Distinguishing Facts and Opinions
- Using Context Clues
- Identifying Cause and Effect
- Drawing Conclusions