This book uses many authentic sources such as factual texts, newspaper articles, features and TV schedules, instruction manuals, everyday signs, stories, quizzes, emails and diary entries. Students are encouraged to read material on different levels and in different ways, such as reading for gist, scanning, skimming, comprehension, analysing structure, summarising and shadow reading.
Not only for reading comprehension - but for extra creativity during lessons.
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Kids, Non-Fiction | 21 November 2009
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The cartoon narrator and his new friends make reading this book a voyage of discovery. This is an amazing fact-filled journey that proves to be much more compelling than the average reference book .Unbelievable facts are popular on radio, TV and in book format. The appeal is to parents as a wide-ranging, fact-filled reading programme for their children.
California Science Leveled Readers can be used to complement core programs or as the main materials in daily instruction. These readers help teachers to meet all learning needs by building fluency and independence for every student, extending key themes and concepts, providing practice and the application of reading skills and strategies, and supporting small-group instruction. Leveled below, on, and above level, these nonfiction books help all learners build fluency, independence, and motivation for lifelong reading success.