Description

Help your students improve their reading comprehension with this focused approach! Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides you tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 33 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts, a variety of practice activities, and a unit review. The comprehensive units guide students to develop a deep understanding of each skill, strategy, and genre introduced with a simple “teach, practice, and assess” approach. Ample reading experiences and varied response formats help to improve students’ overall comprehension and test-taking skills. Correlated to state standards, Common Core State Standards, and International Baccalaureate Standards.

Nonfiction Texts Comprehensive Activities: Main Idea and Details, Visual Information, Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Sequence, Problem and Solution, Description, Predict, Vocabulary, Summarize, Fact and Opinion, Make Inferences, Author’s Purpose

Fiction Texts Comprehension Activities: Character, Setting, Plot, Theme, Point of View, Predict, Figurative Language, Vocabulary, Visual Information, Summarize, Make Inferences, Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast