Reading Detective: Using Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Reading Comprehension Book B1 Grade 7-8
Reading Detective is an effective and comprehensive reading comprehension program that enhances students' skills and boosts performance on state tests. With an emphasis on higher-order thinking and standards-based content, this series ensures improved reading analysis. Engaging activities include multiple choice and short response questions, requiring students to provide sentence-level evidence. The program covers various reading and analysis skills, from vocabulary definition to identifying themes. Each reproducible book features goals, pretests, posttests, 50 activities, a glossary, and detailed answer explanations.
Description
Reading Detective is a series that helps students improve their reading comprehension skills and perform well on state tests. The activities in this series require higher-order thinking and are based on standards to ensure effective learning. Students are required to answer multiple choice and short response questions and provide sentence-level evidence to support their answers. The series begins with single-skill units that focus on defining vocabulary, using context clues, identifying themes, and more. The final unit introduces mixed skills activities. Each reproducible book in the series includes goals, pretests, posttests, 50 activities, a glossary of terms, and detailed explanations of the evidence included in the answers.
Information
Subject: Language Arts
Grade: Grade 7-Grade 8
Brand: Critical Thinking Company
Publisher Date: 06/15/2001
Dimensions: 11 x 8.5
UPC: 9781601448231
