Language Arts

Help your students improve their reading comprehension with this focused approach! Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides you tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 32 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts, a variety of practice activities, and a unit review.

The comprehensive units guide students to develop a deep understanding of each skill, strategy, and genre introduced with a simple “teach, practice, and assess” approach. Ample reading experiences and varied response formats help to improve students' overall comprehension and test-taking skills.

• Main Idea and Details
• Visual Information
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Sequence
• Problem and Solution
• Predict
• Vocabulary
• Summarize
• Fact and Opinion
• Make Inferences
• Author's Purpose
• Make Connections
• Ask Questions

First Grade Comprehension Activities for Fiction Texts

• Character
• Setting
• Plot
• Theme
• Fantasy or Reality
• Vocabulary
• Visual Information
• Summarize
• Make Inferences
• Predict
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast

Help your students improve their reading comprehension with this focused approach! Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides you tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 33 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts, a variety of practice activities, and a unit review.

The comprehensive units guide students to develop a deep understanding of each skill, strategy, and genre introduced with a simple “teach, practice, and assess” approach. Ample reading experiences and varied response formats help to improve students' overall comprehension and test-taking skills.

Second Grade Comprehension Activities for Nonfiction Texts

• Main Idea and Details
• Text Features and Visual Information
• Description
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Sequence
• Problem and Solution
• Description
• Predict
• Vocabulary
• Summarize
• Fact and Opinion
• Make Inferences
• Author's Purpose

Second Grade Comprehension Activities for Fiction Texts

• Character
• Setting
• Plot
• Theme
• Point of View
• Predict
• Figurative Language
• Vocabulary
• Visual Information
• Summarize
• Make Inferences
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast

Second Grade Comprehension Activities for Nonfiction Texts

Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides you tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 35 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts, a variety of practice activities, and a unit review.

The comprehensive units guide students to develop a deep understanding of each skill, strategy, and genre introduced with a simple “teach, practice, and assess” approach. Ample reading experiences and varied response formats help to improve students' overall comprehension and test-taking skills.

Third Grade Comprehension Activities for Nonfiction Texts

• Main Idea and Details
• Text Features and Visual Information
• Description
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Sequence
• Problem and Solution
• Predict
• Vocabulary
• Summarize
• Fact and Opinion
• Make Inferences

Third Grade Comprehension Activities for Fiction Texts

• Character
• Setting
• Plot
• Theme
• Point of View
• Predict
• Vocabulary
• Visual Information
• Summarize
• Make Inferences
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Dialogue
• Simile and Metaphor

Help your students improve their reading comprehension with this focused approach! Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides you tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 35 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts, a variety of practice activities, and a unit review.

The comprehensive units guide students to develop a deep understanding of each skill, strategy, and genre introduced with a simple “teach, practice, and assess” approach. Ample reading experiences and varied response formats help to improve students' overall comprehension and test-taking skills.

• Main Idea and Details
• Text Features and Visual Information
• Description
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Sequence
• Problem and Solution
• Predict
• Vocabulary
• Summarize
• Fact and Opinion
• Make Inferences
• Author's Purpose
• Text Structure

Fourth Grade Comprehension Activities for Fiction Texts

• Character
• Setting
• Plot
• Theme
• Point of View
• Predict
• Vocabulary
• Visual Information
• Summarize
• Make Inferences
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Foreshadowing
• Idioms

Fifth Grade Comprehension Activities for Nonfiction Texts

• Main Idea and Details
• Text Features and Visual Information
• Description
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Sequence
• Problem and Solution
• Predict
• Vocabulary
• Summarize
• Fact and Opinion
• Make Inferences
• Author's Purpose
• Text Structure

Fifth Grade Comprehension Activities for Fiction Texts

• Character
• Setting
• Plot
• Theme
• Point of View
• Predict
• Vocabulary
• Visual Information
• Summarize
• Make Inferences
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Foreshadowing
• Hyperbole

Nonfiction genre studies include expository nonfiction, persuasive nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, and descriptive nonfiction. Fiction genre studies include historical fiction, realistic fiction, science fiction, and comedy.

Use Reading Comprehension Fundamentals as a core standards-aligned reading resource or select the units that align with your curriculum and with your students' needs.

Help your students improve their reading comprehension with this focused approach! Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides you tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 35 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts, a variety of practice activities, and a unit review.

The comprehensive units guide students to develop a deep understanding of each skill, strategy, and genre introduced with a simple “teach, practice, and assess” approach. Ample reading experiences and varied response formats help to improve students' overall comprehension and test-taking skills.

• Main Idea and Details
• Text Features and Visual Information
• Description
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Sequence
• Problem and Solution
• Predict
• Vocabulary
• Summarize
• Fact and Opinion
• Make Inferences
• Author's Purpose

Sixth Grade Comprehension Activities for Fiction Texts

• Character
• Setting
• Plot
• Theme
• Point of View
• Predict
• Vocabulary
• Foreshadowing
• Summarize
• Make Inferences
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Dialogue
• Idioms
• Symbolism

This language arts reading book improves comprehension for students at all skill levels.

The fifth grade Reading Comprehension Practice workbook provides:

• instructional reading for below-level readers
• independent reading for on-level readers
• supplemental reading for above-level readers

Each unit features before-and-after activities, differentiated guides, and vocabulary exercises.

Mark Twain Reading Comprehension Practice for fifth grade includes leveled reading units. This middle school reading comprehension workbook improves students' reading and vocabulary, focusing on:

• reading as a comprehension process
• relating reading to what they already know
• decoding rapidly
• recognizing words
• monitoring student comprehension and taking action when needed

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Reading Comprehension Practice for sixth grade supports differentiated instruction by providing:

• supplemental reading for above-level readers
• independent reading for on-level readers
• instructional reading for below-level readers

Build vocabulary one level at a time!

This middle school reading comprehension workbook helps students read with confidence and clarity by improving their ability to:

• recognize and decode words
• relate what they're learning to what they already know
• monitor progress and take action when needed

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Lead your students toward mastering content-specific knowledge and literacy skills with engaging activities such as creating raps, scripts, and discussion questions. Reading, Writing, and Rhythm: Engaging Content-Area Literacy Strategies uses innovative approaches to teaching content-area material by integrating the arts, rhythm, and rhyme into instruction.

By using rhythm and rhyme to teach specific materials, students will be more likely to retain information, master content, develop literacy skills, and meet standards goals. The strategies in this book will not only motivate teachers to use these innovative educational approaches, but they will help students begin to master content knowledge and literacy skills, thus building a new-found confidence and excitement of literacy learning.