Document-Based Questions for Reading Comprehension and Critical Thinking (Grade 3)
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.
There are five topic areas with six or seven lessons in each. Each lesson consists of three pages: a reading passage, a related document, and an assessment practice page containing multiple choice, true-false-explain, and short-answer document-based questions. The students respond to the document-based questions based on the information gleaned from the passage plus its related document.
Reading Fusion is designed to help students improve across a range of skills. The student's book contains 16 units which center on interesting articles about modern topics. A variety of important themes are covered, including the environment, health, technology, and more. Reading, vocabulary, listening, speaking, writing, and grammar skills are strengthened in each unit. Units also contain listening and reading test practices to prepare for standardized tests like TOEIC, TOEFL. An MP3 CD is included with the student's book. Students can listen to every unit's target vocabulary, reading passage, listening test practice, and supplementary reading passage.
Oliver Grant - once in Military Intelligence, now a hardened mercenary - selling his services to the highest bidder. The perfect choice to rescue the stepson of a millionaire Mafia boss from a Libyan prison fortress. But Grant doesn't want the job - when will he realize how much trouble he's in?
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 10 October 2011
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The Wisdom of Father Brown
From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest runs down bandits, traitors, and killers. Why is he so successful?After many years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it.
The stories included are "The Paradise of Thieves," "The Duel of Dr. Hirsch," "The Man in the Passage," "The Mistakes of the Machine," "The Head of the Caesar," "The Purple Wig," "The Perishing of the Pendragons," "The God of the Gongs," "The Salad of the Colonel Cray," "The Strange Crime of John Boulnois" and "The Fairy Tale of Father Brown."
