Reading Comprehension Boosters

Reading Comprehension Boosters
Author: Thomas G. Gunning
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2010-04-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0470399929

An effective resource for improving young students' comprehension skills With 100 high-interest reading activities, this book is designed to help students gain fundamental comprehension skills so they can succeed in reading complex and varied types of texts. Each lesson includes a brief reading selection followed by questions, multiple-choice selections, and thinking and writing activities. The activities, all on reproducible worksheets, can be used to give individual students or groups extra practice, or as supplemental skill-building and test-prep activities for the full class. Activities are grouped within seven units, each focusing on an important aspect of comprehension Units increase in difficulty level so that students gain proficiency as they work through the material High-interest themes include stories about robots, animal helpers, space, and famous people Offers activities that build the advanced cognitive skills called for in the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) Each lesson includes a teacher section with guidance on how to introduce the activities to students and support them in their reading practices.

Building Reading Comprehension, Grades 3 - 4

Building Reading Comprehension, Grades 3 - 4
Author: Jillayne Prince Wallaker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781568229133

A top-selling teacher resource line, The 100+ Series(TM) features over 100 reproducible activities in each book! --We read every day: books, poems, assignments, lists, signs, directions, recipes, letters, and more! To face a world of print, students must read critically and for meaning. A variety of formats in this book offer the practice students need to build important reading skills. Drawing conclusions, identifying the main idea, examining the writer's purpose, mapping story elements, building vocabulary, and determining fact or opinion are among the many reading skills covered.

Reading for Comprehension

Reading for Comprehension
Author: Continental Press
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2006-01
Genre: Reading comprehension
ISBN: 9780845416815

Can a fish cough? With level B of Reading for Comprehension, your students will learn all about this kid-friendly topic and many more. This book for grade 2 students includes 46 high-interest, nonfiction articles with questions that reinforce key reading and writing skills commonly found on state tests. Multiple-choice questions test these reading skills: vocabulary, main idea and details, sequence, cause and effect, and inferences and conclusions. Students also answer open-ended questions to practice writing narrative text, descriptive text, persuasive text, and expository text.

Hi-Lo Passages to Build Comprehension

Hi-Lo Passages to Build Comprehension
Author: Michael Priestley
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439548878

Provides high-interest reading passages along with exercises to help struggling readers.

Building Reading Comprehension, Grades 3 - 4

Building Reading Comprehension, Grades 3 - 4
Author: Jillayne Prince Wallaker
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1568229135

A top-selling teacher resource line, The 100+ Series(TM) features over 100 reproducible activities in each book! --We read every day: books, poems, assignments, lists, signs, directions, recipes, letters, and more! To face a world of print, students must read critically and for meaning. A variety of formats in this book offer the practice students need to build important reading skills. Drawing conclusions, identifying the main idea, examining the writer's purpose, mapping story elements, building vocabulary, and determining fact or opinion are among the many reading skills covered.

Reading Comprehension, Grade 3

Reading Comprehension, Grade 3
Author:
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2014-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1483819833

Skill Builders are great tools for keeping children current during the school year or preparing them for the next grade level. A variety of fun and challenging activities provides students with practice and helps introduce basic skills to new learners. This full-color workbook contains appropriate passages and exercises based on national standards for third grade to help ensure that children master reading comprehension skills before progressing. Skill Builders combines entertaining and interactive activities with eye-catching graphics to make learning and reviewing fun and effective. The compact 6" x 9" size makes this book perfect for school, at home, or on the go. It features 80 perforated, reproducible pages and an answer key.

Expanding Reading Comprehension in Grades 3–6

Expanding Reading Comprehension in Grades 3–6
Author: Katherine A. Dougherty Stahl
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2022-03-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1462549365

Students in grades 3–6 need to use increasingly sophisticated comprehension skills and strategies as they read and build knowledge across disciplinary content areas. Grounded in research, this book presents effective practices for integrating literacy instruction with literature, science, and social studies. Chapters address text selection, vocabulary development, strategy instruction, discussion formats, writing to express and expand comprehension, assessment, and more. Ways to meet the needs of emergent bilingual and culturally diverse students are highlighted throughout. Ideal for preservice and inservice teachers and professional staff development, the book includes classroom vignettes, text boxes with easy-to-read instructional procedures, and curriculum resources. Helpful reproducible forms can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. See also the authors' related book on the primary grades: Developing Reading Comprehension: Effective Instruction for All Students in PreK-2.

Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6-12

Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6-12
Author: Jeff Zwiers
Publisher: International Reading Assoc.
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780872075061

"This book is intended for middle school and high school teachers of social studies, science, English, English-language development, and any other subject with challenging texts and classes with readers who struggle to understand them. The activities are especially meant to help readers who are below grade level to access and organize the content of grade-level texts." - Preface.

Reading Comprehension, Grades 3 - 4

Reading Comprehension, Grades 3 - 4
Author: Holly Fitzgerald
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2014-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1483820068

A top-selling teacher resource line, The 100+ Series(TM) features over 100 reproducible activities in each book! Organized by specific reading skills, this book is designed to enhance students' reading comprehension. Lively reading passages present high-

Reading Fundamentals: Grade 3

Reading Fundamentals: Grade 3
Author: Kathy Furgang
Publisher: Spark Publishing Group
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-07-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781411472013

Start kids off right with reading--and keep them on track with this colorful, engaging workbook! It combines fascinating topics, eye-catching photographs, and a bright, appealing design children will love. Created to adhere to the Common Core Curriculum standards that most US states have adopted, Reading Fundamentals: Grade 3 presents young readers with nonfiction passages that cover a range of topics, including science, history, and geography. After each passage, a range of questions--fill-in-the-blank, short answer, true/false, multiple choice, and matching--test key comprehension skills.