Document students' mastery of specific comprehension strategies and prepare them for standardized reading assessments. Each book includes multiple assessments for specific strategies including summarize, identify main idea and supporting details, make inferences, compare and contrast, and more. Assessments include multiple-choice and constructed-response questions.

A stunning, cinematic debut novel set at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Moon's Crossing explores a unique time in American history, when the romantic heritage of the nineteenth century merged with the industrial temperament of the modern age. Jim Moon, an idealistic Union Army veteran, leaves his young wife and son to visit the World's Columbian Exposition, which has attracted America's greatest artists and thinkers as well as its drifters and schemers. Nick, a fast-talking con man, takes Moon to Pullman Town, a model city south of Chicago that is the site of the complex labor strike of 1894. Moon comes to see that the bright future the fair promised is compromised by greed. Unable to recapture his early vision of America, he takes his own life, and in so doing generates a surprising love story between a common young woman and a corrupt policeman as well as a major upheaval in the life of his neglected son. Kaleidoscopic and fast-paced, Moon's Crossing draws on such sources as the traditional tall tale to present a unique narrative style. Moon's adventures are completely American, and the legacy he leaves is, ironically, more significant than his failed life would have foretold.

Instant 5-day units build comprehension strategies. Includes 1 Book and 1 CD-ROM

Here's a fun and easy way to help learners understand and remember comprehension strategies! Making Comprehension Connections: Look, Listen, and Link! effectively combines the senses for greater academic success by providing everything the brain needs for comprehension and memory retention-visual, verbal, auditory, and kinesthetic input. This easy-to-follow program provides colorful and simple icons in the form of posters that help learners remember concepts without the help of words. It also provides learners with multiple ways to remember and understand the comprehension skills and strategies, using songs and other active learning experiences. The songs are featured on an Audio CD and provided in print form in the Teacher's Guide and on transparencies. A separate Teacher Resource CD contains all of the reproducibles and a professional development DVD is also included that shows how to implement the lessons. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards.

Instant 5-day units build phonics skills. Includes 1 Book and 1 CD-ROM

Grades 3-6 "Active literacy is the means to deeper understanding and diverse, flexible thinking, and is the hallmark of our approach to teaching and learning. Reading, writing, talking, listening, and investigating are the cornerstones of active literacy. The Toolkit captures the language of thinking we use to explicitly teach kids to comprehend the wide variety of informational text they encounter. Through the Toolkit lessons, we demonstrate how the kids adopt and adapt our teaching language as their learning language." - Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis In The Comprehension Toolkit, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis have created an intensive curricular resource designed to help students understand, respond to, and learn from nonfiction text. By actively engaging students in reading, talking, and writing about information and ideas, The Comprehension Toolkit provides a foundation for developing independent readers and learners across the curriculum and throughout the school year. Framed around the Gradual Release of Responsibility approach, The Comprehension Toolkit provides scaffolded comprehension strategy instruction. First through modeling and guided practice, then releasing responsibility to students through collaborative practice, independent practice, and application, the Toolkit's lessons teach students to use comprehension strategies flexibly in a variety of texts, topics, and subject areas. Professional Support A series of resources introduce, support, and extend the Toolkit's core lessons. The Teacher's Guide outlines the thinking behind the Toolkit and describes its components, instructional design, and assessment options. The Resources for The Comprehension Toolkit CD-ROM provides an array of print and video resources including a photographic overview of an Active Literacy Classroom, downloadable research articles, templates, assessment masters, and full-colour lesson text. Extend and Investigate helps you extend the Toolkit's comprehension strategies across the curriculum and throughout the year. It provides strategies for content area reading and research, textbook reading, test reading, and a variety of practical bibliographies. 6 Strategy Clusters The 26 strategy lessons in The Comprehension Toolkit are organized into six Strategy Cluster books. Informational Text A series of short, engaging, real-world informational texts provide an effective context for using and practising the Toolkit's comprehension strategies. The Source Book of Short Text provides two kinds of nonfiction text: Lesson Text, 24 articles from children's magazines; and Nonfiction Short Text, 43 short informational articles specially written for the Toolkit.

Each Teachers Edition focuses on a specific theme anddepending upon the grade level, contains explicit, systematicinstruction in phonemic awareness, print and book awareness,alphabetic knowledge, phonics, fluency, word structure,vocabulary, comprehension, spelling and writing, appropriateto the specific grade level.