Short Reading Passages & Graphic Organizers to Build Comprehension

Short Reading Passages & Graphic Organizers to Build Comprehension
Author: Linda Ward Beech
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages:
Release: 2001-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781417730889

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.

Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension

Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension
Author: Classroom Complete Press
Publisher: Classroom Complete Press
Total Pages: 61
Release: 2015-04-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1771673834

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.

Short Reading Passages with Graphic Organizers to Model & Teach Key Comprehension Skills

Short Reading Passages with Graphic Organizers to Model & Teach Key Comprehension Skills
Author: Linda Beech
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780545234559

In each book, 40 high-interest 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. The ready-to-use Notebook files on CD contain companion activities that make it easy to model these essential reading comprehension skills on your SMART Board. Following your lead, students can draw, move, highlight, and underline key text right on the board. Teacher-tested activities Instantly engage students with interactive lessons Great for struggling readers Improve automaticity Boost reading comprehension

Show Me

Show Me
Author: Katherine Scraper
Publisher: Good Year Books
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1596470925

Organized into fiction, nonfiction, and word-study units, 32 graphic organizers build reading strategies such as predicting, identifying main ideas, making inferences, analyzing cause and effect, and drawing conclusions. Each organizer is supported by a six-page lesson comprising teacher instructions, a reproducible passage to read, a photocopy master of the organizer, a filled-out copy of the organizer along with model student responses, a writing assignment (for which the graphic organizer becomes a writing planner), and assessment and extension activity ideas. Grades 4-6. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 202 pages.

Comprehension Homework Packets

Comprehension Homework Packets
Author: Jan Meyer
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-10
Genre: Reading comprehension
ISBN: 9780439650946

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.

30 Graphic Organizers for Reading, Grades 5-8

30 Graphic Organizers for Reading, Grades 5-8
Author: Stephanie Macceca
Publisher: Shell Education
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425803865

Provides fresh, new graphic organizers to help students read, write, and comprehend content area materials. Helps students organize and retain information.

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.