Description: Practice an essential skill for reading comphension, figurative language and exclusion. High-interest reading passages and controlled readibility help students achieve their goals. The book has 11 reading lessons and three levels of controlled readability: 2.0-2.9, 3.0-3.9, and 4.0-4.9. Each lesson consists of a one-page, illustrated reading passage and two pages of reading comprehension tasks that require students to: -identify the main idea and detect details -think about vocabulary and semantics -understand figurative language and exclusion -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 questions.

Series: SPOTLIGHT ON READING COMPREHENSION

Author: BOWERS, Linda et al

Publisher: Linguisystems

Grade: G2-5

Format: SOFTCOVER/REPRODUCIBLE

Components: 40pp