The eight Benchmark Books (one fiction and one nonfiction title per book) are informal reading assessments given by classroom teachers to determine a student’s instructional level. The Evaluation Guide is an easy-to-use guide that outlines the evaluation protocol for each benchmark book and includes: - Reading accuracy check - Paper-and-pencil comprehension test - Phonics or word study and nonfiction feature assessments - Retelling assessment
Jules Verne’s career as a novelist began in 1863, when he struck a new vein in fiction—stories that combined popular science and exploration. In Round the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions Ј20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days—and he is determined not to lose.
Maha is not in a position to be choosy about the work she takes, so when offered a job as a Chief Administrator at an office in a seedy business park she jumps at the chance. However, all is not as it seems. Not only is she the only employee but her boss has disappeared on a business trip leaving her with full responsibility for everything. hen locking up at night, Maha hears noices coming from the locked and supposedly empty neighbouring psychiatrist's office. A chilling mystery unravels as Maha investigates the 'empty' office and uncovers the horrifying nature of her boss's true business.
Structural Readers is a series in six stages, of mainly original titles including fiction, non-fiction, poems, and plays.
The past plays an important part in both of these stories. In Stranger things have happened, Chris Duncan, a successful young businessman, arrives home from Pakistan determined to find himself a wife. He has no luck- until a dream of his happy childhood days in a Sussex house puts him on the right track.
In It’s not right, is it? A young man, David Monroe, takes a flat in an old lady’s house. Trouble starts when he realizes that the old lady believes he is her own dead son…
