Comprehension is key to a child's success in school, for reading is more than just recognizing and pronouncing printed words - it involves comprehending the meaning of those words as well. Children can truly read only when they understand the meaning of the words they can pronounce. This workbook provides activities designed to strengthen important comprehension skills including following directions, categorizing, sequencing, finding the main idea, using context, and locating information. Exercises are designed so a child can work with a minimum of supervision in a classroom or at home. Answer keys included.

Build better readers in bilingual classrooms! Bilingual Reading Comprehension is a valuable resource for bilingual, two-way immersion in third-grade classrooms. This book provides bilingual reading practice for students through identical activities featured in English and Spanish, allowing the teacher to tailor lessons to a dual-language classroom. Fiction and nonfiction activities reinforce essential reading skills, such as finding the main idea, identifying supporting details, recognizing story elements, and learning new vocabulary. This 160-page book aligns with Common Core State Standards, as well as state and national standards.

Daily instruction on reading strategies and skills needed to improve comprehension and raise test scores.

Can a fish cough? With level B of Reading for Comprehension, your students will learn all about this kid-friendly topic and many more. This book for grade 2 students includes 46 high-interest, nonfiction articles with questions that reinforce key reading and writing skills commonly found on state tests. Multiple-choice questions test these reading skills: vocabulary, main idea and details, sequence, cause and effect, and inferences and conclusions. Students also answer open-ended questions to practice writing narrative text, descriptive text, persuasive text, and expository text.

This practitioner resource and course text has given thousands of K-12 teachers evidence-based tools for helping students--particularly those at risk for reading difficulties--understand and acquire new knowledge from text. The authors present a range of scientifically validated instructional techniques and activities, complete with helpful classroom examples and sample lessons. The book describes ways to assess comprehension, build the skills that good readers rely on, and teach students to use multiple comprehension strategies flexibly and effectively. Each chapter features thought-provoking discussion questions. Reproducible lesson plans and graphic organizers can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. New to This Edition *Chapters on content-area literacy, English language learners, and intensive interventions. *Incorporates current research on each component of reading comprehension. *Discusses ways to align instruction with the Common Core State Standards. *Additional instructional activities throughout.

Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 35 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts and incorporate a variety of reading comprehension activities.

Milliken's Reading Well! series provides teachers and parents with a wide variety of activities to use at home or in the classroom to enhance your reading program. Reading materials and styles of writing include realistic fiction, biography, poetry, fantasy, informational articles, myths, legends, tall tales, and plays or skits. The comprehension activities have been selected to provide opportunities for students to practice a variety of reading skills. A list of comprehension skills for all grade levels is included on the Reading Comprehension Chart on page 1. A variety of assessment rubrics helps you track progress in achieving those skills. Each book in the series is sequential, allowing students to build on skills previous learned. The various levels available allows you to select the one most appropriate for an individual student or class.

Milliken's Reading Well! series provides teachers and parents with a wide variety of activities to use at home or in the classroom to enhance your reading program. Reading materials and styles of writing include realistic fiction, biography, poetry, fantasy, informational articles, myths, legends, tall tales, and plays or skits. The comprehension activities have been selected to provide opportunities for students to practice a variety of reading skills. A list of comprehension skills for all grade levels is included on the Reading Comprehension Chart on page 1. A variety of assessment rubrics helps you track progress in achieving those skills. Each book in the series is sequential, allowing students to build on skills previous learned. The various levels available allows you to select the one most appropriate for an individual student or class.

Radically change the way students learn from texts, extending beyond comprehension to critical reasoning and problem solving. Is your reading comprehension instruction just a pile of strategies? There is no evidence that teaching one strategy at a time, especially with pieces of text that require that readers use a variety of strategies to successfully negotiate meaning, is effective. And how can we extend comprehension beyond simple meaning? Bestselling authors Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Nicole Law propose a new, comprehensive model of reading instruction that goes beyond teaching skills to fostering engagement and motivation. Using a structured, three-pronged approach—skill, will, and thrill—students learn to experience reading as a purposeful act and embrace struggle as a natural part of the reading process. Instruction occurs in three phases: Skill. Holistically developing skills and strategies necessary for students to comprehend text, such as monitoring, predicting, summarizing, questioning, and inferring. Will. Creating the mindsets, motivations, and habits, including goal setting and choice, necessary for students to engage fully with texts. Thrill. Fostering the thrill of comprehension, so that students share their thinking with others or use their knowledge for something else. Comprehension is the structured framework you need to empower students to comprehend text and take action in the world.

Organized by specific reading skills, this book is designed to enhance students' reading comprehension. The focused, meaningful practice and entertaining topics motivate students to learn.