Journey into Reading: California

Here's the ideal resource for those under-performing readers in grades 3-8! Journey into Reading: California provides contextual support for vocabulary and word skills, combined with high-interest articles in full-color layouts.

Each lesson emphasizes a specific reading skill:

Literal skills

• Recognizing the main idea
• Recalling details
• Determining the sequence of events
• Identifying cause-and-effect relationships

Inferential skills

• Comparing and contrasting
• Making inferences and drawing conclusions
• Telling fact from opinion
• Predicting

Teacher's guides include comprehension skills and strategies, an implementation guide, and a comprehensive answer key with correlations to the California Content Standards for Reading.

Teacher resource kits include a teacher's guide and blackline masters for:
 

• graphic organizers
• vocabulary tests
• skill-specific practice sheets
• posttest

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