Standardized Test Practice: Long Reading Passages (Grades 3-4)
These ready-to-go practice packets help students build the comprehension skills and endurance they need to tackle long reading passages on the test. Standardized Test Practice: Long Reading Passages targets commonly tested genres: informational articles, biography, realistic and historical fiction, persuasive essay, poems, folk tales, and more.
Short Reading Passages with Graphic Organizers to Model and Teach Key Comprehension Skills (Grades 2-3)
Forty high-interest passages are paired with graphic organizers to help all kids easily learn how to find the main idea, understand cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence events, and more. Following your lead, students can draw, move, highlight, and underline key text. A surefire way to engage even the most reluctant learners and build the reading comprehension skills all students need to succeed.
Reading Tree Songbirds Phonics CD-ROMs are written by the Series Editor of Songbird Phonics, Clare Kirtley. Songbirds Phonics CD- ROMs are a unique blend of materials for the systematic teaching and practise of phonics, this CDROM is ideal for using on an Interactive Whiteboard and for independent use, and builds phonic knowledge using the six stages of the lively Songbirds Phonics stories written by Julia Donaldson. It can be used for whole class teaching of Songbirds Phonics on an interactive whiteboard, or for individual use on a PC, and practises all of the phonics in the first twelve Songbirds stories.
The standards-based critical thinking activities of Reading Detective develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. The activities are especially effective at helping students understand more challenging reading concepts such as drawing inferences, making conclusions, determining cause-and-effect, and using context clues to define vocabulary.
Free voluntary reading looks better and more powerful than ever. Stephen D. Krashen, PhD, is an advocate for free voluntary reading in schools and has published many journal articles on the subject. Free Voluntary Reading: Power 2010collects the last ten years of his extensive work and reconsiders all aspects of this important debate in light of the latest findings.
