Why do doughnuts have holes? What causes people to yawn? Reading for Comprehension, Full-Color Edition is an update of our popular series and features high-interest articles to help students build their nonfiction reading skills.
Exclusive to this edition
- A color-rich design and new articles have been added.
- In the opening lessons, the skill for each question is labeled, so students know what reading strategy to use. In the lessons that follow, the labels are eliminated to allow students to show what they know.
- The order of the questions in each lesson varies to make the targeted skills less predictable.
- Audio CDs are available for additional listening support.
- lnteractive eBooks are available.
Student Books
Each book includes 46 high-interest, nonfiction articles in social studies and science with questions that assess comprehension and build critical thinking skills.
Reading skills:
Vocabulary, context clues, main idea, details, sequence, cause and effect, inferences and conclusions
Writing skills:
Narrative, descriptive, persuasive, expository
Audio CDs
CDs feature oral reading of the articles for listening support. They’re ideal for below-level readers and English learners. Audio is also available as a download. Call us for details.
Teacher’s Guides
Teacher’s guides include an evaluation chart, skill descriptors and instructional strategies, answer key, rubric, and reproducible graphic organizers.
Student Book: 96 pages
Teacher’s Guide: 32 pages
Hear what teachers have to say:
“ These are high-interest topics to my students. They love them! ”
– Neisha Bruce, 2nd Grade Teacher, Parkway Elementary School, NJ
“ The skill labels in the opening lessons are great! They’re especially helpful for my below-level students. ”
– Neisha Bruce, 2nd Grade Teacher, Parkway Elementary School, NJ
“ I require my students to highlight where they found their answers in the passage. The two-page format makes it easy since they don’t need to flip back and forth. ”
– Georgia Ricard, 1st Grade Teacher, MS
“ Students love the color format! They tell me it makes the article more interesting to read. ”
– Mrs. Nicholson, 6th Grade Teacher, NC
