Read, respond, reflect – Nonfictoin comprehension skill boosters – Ages 9–11

Understanding and retaining what was read

This series of is especially designed to quickly improve your students’ abilities to understand and retain what they read. Featuring high-interest nonfiction topics written in carefully constructed sentences, each activity includes a comprehension text and a series of questions. The organisation of the worksheets provides progressively challenging activities ranging from simple recall to evaluations requiring higher-order thinking skills.
 

Features:

• consistent review and reinforcement of fundamental comprehension skills
• questions that cover a range of skills including predicting outcomes, recalling details, identifying author’s purpose, paraphrasing and drawing conclusions
• answers provided
• thirty-nine dynamic reproducible lessons in each book
• end-of-book tests provide easy assessment
• intriguing reading selections appeal to students of all ages and structured writing assists struggling students