reading comprehension

Contains reproducible worksheets that feature test-formatted practice questions help students develop the skills of finding main ideas and summarizing.

Presents thirty-five reading passages designed to help students in grades four through eight master the critical reading-comprehension skills needed to succeed on tests.

Presents thirty-five reading passages designed to help students in grades four through eight improve their critical reading-comprehension skills.

Describes twenty-five activities that may be used to help students in grades four through eight identify and understand the literary elements in fiction and nonfiction books, including poetry, each with a list of suggested short stories that can be used to model the activity.

Contains forty short passages paired with graphic organizers designed to build reading comprehension skills in students in grades six through eight.

A compendium of strategies and practices for teachers that describes various practices that can be used to improve classroom literacy and students' reading skills.

Contains more than sixty make-and-learn activities designed to help students in grades two through four respond meaningfully to what they read.

Describes how to match fiction with non-fiction on the same topic in order to develop students' comprehension in the subject area; and contains fifteen strategy lessons.

Offers a wide range of strategies designed to help teachers improve their student reading comprehension and monitor and support students' utilization of various strategies, including predicting, making connections, questioning, visualizing, and summarizing.

A developmental psychologist evaluates the ways in which reading and writing have transformed the human brain, in an anecdotal study that reveals the significant changes in evolutionary brain physiology throughout history.