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Making Connections Small Group Kit, Reading Comprehension, Grade 4

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Item #: 9780838832844
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Grade 4 reading comprehension instruction and practice in one convenient package! Making Connections materials are excellent for supplemental or stand-alone literacy curriculum for the classroom, homeschooling, or at-home learning.

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Description

Help your students read to succeed with the Making Connections Small Group Kit. Designed to help master relevant fiction and nonfiction, each Making Connections unit provides students with multiple opportunities to develop, practice, and master a specific reading comprehension skill. Teacher Guide helps employ information in a scaffolded format that supports students by modeling, guiding, and then coaching students to reading independence. This set is specifically designed for Grade 4 literacy level.

Features

  • High-interest informational and narrative reading selections in Student Books are designed for active, strategic reading and identification of specific comprehension skills
  • Teacher’s Edition includes scaffolded, explicit instruction of the Student Book, varied techniques to accommodate students at different levels, Text Connections, and reproducible multiple-choice assessments
  • Readers (books) feature a range of fiction and nonfiction texts that each include a specific reading comprehension strategy/focus, a purpose-setting question, graphic organizer, follow-up comprehension questions, and a writing activity
  • Audio CD supports student with audio recordings of each text in the Student Book, including “Practice” the Skill” pages
  • Storage display box keeps all Making Connections materials in one neat and accessible place for the classroom or at-home learning environment
Small Reading Comprehension Group Kit for Grade 4 Includes:
  • 6 Student Books
  • 1 Teacher's Edition Book
  • One Reader Class Set with 36 Books Total (6 Copies Each of 6 Assorted Readers/Titles):
    • Gulmamadak the Great (Skill: Sequencing)
    • Mountain Biking Adventure (Skill: Main Idea)
    • The Big Move (Skill: Comparing/Contrasting)
    • Caleb Piper, Private Eye (Skill: Drawing Conclusions and Predicting Outcomes)
    • The Loch Ness Monster (Skill: Fact and Opinion)
    • Glow Worms (Skill: Cause and Effect)
  • 1 Audio Narration CD
  • 1 Storage Display Box
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ISBN Number: 9780838832844
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SUOM Description: Set
Brand Name: Making Connections

Making Connections

  • Each unit focuses on one comprehension skill, such as comparing and contrasting, identifying main ideas, or differentiating between fact and option
  • Lessons allow students to apply strategies to informational or narrative texts
  • Units culminate with the Comprehension Library reader that supports the independent application of skills and strategies

Focus on Connections


Making Connections® is a direct, systematic, and highly interactive comprehension program that teaches students strategies to build their comprehension. The program employs a scaffolded instructional plan that supports students by modeling, guiding, and then coaching students to independence. Fiction and nonfiction texts are tied to content-area topics to prepare students to analyze and interpret diverse materials across content areas.

Students will learn how to:

  • Understand skills such as cause and effect, drawing conclusions, and predicting outcomes
  • Locate, interpret, and organize key information in a text
  • Analyze words in a text using vocabulary strategies
  • Utilize text features such as maps, graphs, tables, photos, and glossaries to aid comprehension
  • Interpret a variety of genres including biographies, science & social studies texts, Greek myth and much more!

For More Information

  • Contact a sales consultant for more information on how you can best utilize this program in your school or district. Our sales consultants are your resource for product presentations, workshops, and product review samples.
Making Connections Small Group Kit, Reading Comprehension, Grade 4