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A great way to build the reading comprehension skills kids need to become better readers and successful test takers.
Interactive SMART Board lessons focus on finding the main idea, understanding cause and effect, comparing and contrasting, and sequencing events.
58 color reproducible graphic organizers to help your students comprehend any book or piece of literature in a visual way. Our graphic organizers enable readers to see how ideas fit together, and can be used to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your students' thought processes. Our graphic organizers are essential learning tools that will help your students construct meaning and understand what they are reading. They will help you observe your students' thinking process on what you read as a class, as a group, or independently, and can be used for assessment. They include: Story Maps, Plot Development, Character Webs, Predicting Outcomes, Inferencing, Foreshadowing, Characterization, Sequencing Maps, Cause-Effect Timelines, Themes, Story Summaries and Venn Diagrams.
Interactive SMART Board lessons focus on finding the main idea, understanding cause and effect, comparing and contrasting, and sequencing events.
Help students become purposeful and thoughtful readers with this collection of high-interest reading passages and companion graphic organizers, comprehension questions, and practice bubble tests. Teachers will find these easy-to-manage homework activities encourage students' ability to understand what they read, learn important content, and build confidence in their test-taking skills. They will practice paying attention to detail, determining the meanings of words in context, and much more. For use with Grades 4-8.
The sure-fire and easy way to build the reading comprehension skills kids need to succeed! Forty short passages are paired with graphic organizers to help all kids easily learn how to find the main idea, understand cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence events, and more. Watch test scores soar. For use with Grades 2-3.
Forty short, nonfiction passages, with companion comprehension questions, that target critical reading skills and give students the repeated practice they need!
Boost your students' reading comprehension and critical-thinking skills using all kinds of high-interest nonfiction sources. From how-to guides and letters to news stories and advertisements, these ready-to-reproduce passages and companion questions will give your students the practice they need to understand the information they see and read every day -- and succeed on standardized tests! Book jacket.
