Offers twenty-four reproducible passages from "high interest" non-fiction sources, and provides a prereading question to assist students to focus on what they read, along with a standarized practice test for grades six through eight

Boost students’ reading comprehension and critical thinking skills using all kinds of nonfiction. From how-to guides and letters to news stories and advertisements, these high-interest, ready-to-reproduce nonfiction passages and companion questions will give your students the practice they need to understand the information they see and read every day--and succeed on standardized tests. For use with Grades 4-5.

Boost your students' reading comprehension and critical-thinking skills using all kinds of high-interest nonfiction sources. From how-to guides and letters to news stories and advertisements, these ready-to-reproduce passages and companion questions will give your students the practice they need to understand the information they see and read every day -- and succeed on standardized tests! Book jacket.

Reproducible passages, grouped by reading strategies, come with test-formatted questions

After reading brief nonfiction passages about science, geography, or history topics, students answer multiple choice and short answer questions to build seven essential comprehension skills.

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

Based on articles from TIME for Kids magazine, activities provide reading comprehension practice in standardized test format.

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Help students develop and practice the skills they need to compare and contrast fiction and nonfiction passages. After each of the 25 pairs of passages, students are asked both multiple choice and open-ended questions.

Do your students fail to even finish a timed test? Do they read word by word? Do they simply move their eyes over the page, never remembering what they read? If you suspect that students' test scores are being confounded by any of these traits, or if you have students who need to process greater amounts of information, the Timed Readings books can help. For over thirty years, Jamestown has been helping students increase their reading rate and fluency while maintaining comprehension. Timed Readings is the original series of timed reading books; 400-word nonfiction timed passages in science, social studies, the humanities, and more.