12 sets of high-interest passages, written at three levels with test-formatted questions to target and teach key comprehension skills.

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

"Grades 4-8"--Cover.

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.

Dozens of high-interest reproducible passages provide text marking practice that helps students build comprehension skills.

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

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.

Grade 3, Reproducible Resource Book, Each book in the Nonfiction Reading Practice series contains 20 content-area units presented in a unique format. Each unit has three articles written on the same topic, but at three different reading levels.

Provides an easy to follow format that fits into many unit plans that promote critical thinking, text analysis, and assessment. Teachers can use this additionional material to gain further insight in meeting the needs of all learners with the complex texts of the Common Core Standards. Includes a CD that provides additional high-interest texts, both informational and literary that can be implemented into instruction.

Give students practice in answering the types of questions used in standardized tests. High-interest stories, primary source documents, and comprehension questions encourage the use of higher order thinking skills.