Description: Students go beyond the rote meaning of what is read when they summarize the meaning of reading passages and rephrase parts of the story. The content is designed to appeal to older students reading below grade level. There are 11 reading passages with three levels of controlled readability: 4.0-4.9, 5.0-5.9, and 6.0-6.9. Lessons consist of a one-page, illustrated reading passage and two pages with reading comprehension tasks that require students to: -identify the main idea and detect details -think about vocabulary and semantics -paraphrase and summarize the information read -formulate a question related to the story topic -complete a writing activity The reading comprehension questions are similar to those found on classroom and national reading comprehension tests. Questions challenge students to think about the reading passage and use reasoning skills. Most of the questions are multiple-choice with some true/false and oral response questions.

Author: JOHNSON, Paul / LaGIUDICE, Carolyn

Publisher: Linguisystems

Grade: G6-

Format: SOFTCOVER/REPRODUCIBLE