Inferring, Grades 1 - 2


Book Description

Inferring is an essential reading comprehension skill for all subject areas. Help students understand inferring using Spotlight on Reading: Inferring for grades 1Ð2. This 48-page book includes a variety of high-interest lessons and activities that make learning fun! The exercises increase in difficulty as the book progresses, so students practice more-advanced skills as they work. With a variety of formats, teachers can provide direct instruction, reinforcement, and independent practice throughout the year. This book is perfect for practice at home and school and includes an answer key. Aligns with Common Core State Standards and Canadian provincial standards.




Inferring, Grades 3 - 4


Book Description

Using a variety of fun and interesting formats, the activities in Inferring require students to draw logical conclusions based on prior knowledge and implied information. This important skill will help to strengthen their comprehension across all subject areas. --The high-interest lessons in the fantastic Spotlight on Reading series are supplemented with a variety of activities to make learning each skill fun! The exercises increase in difficulty as the book progresses, so the students practice more advanced skills as they work. With a variety of fun and instructional formats, teachers can provide direct instruction, reinforcement, and independent practice throughout the year. Each title in the series addressing essential skills at three different difficulty levels! Answer keys are also included.




Inferring, Grades 1 - 2


Book Description

Inferring is an essential reading comprehension skill for all subject areas. Help students understand inferring using Spotlight on Reading: Inferring for grades 1–2. This 48-page book includes a variety of high-interest lessons and activities that make learning fun! The exercises increase in difficulty as the book progresses, so students practice more-advanced skills as they work. With a variety of formats, teachers can provide direct instruction, reinforcement, and independent practice throughout the year. This book is perfect for practice at home and school and includes an answer key. Aligns with Common Core State Standards and Canadian provincial standards.




No Mirrors in My Nana's House


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A girl discovers the beauty in herself by looking into her Nana's eyes.




The Scarecrow's Hat


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In this classroom favorite, a resourceful chicken enlists her farm friends to get a coveted hat from Scarecrow. A delightful circular tale and fall read-aloud! Chicken really admires Scarecrow's straw hat. Scarecrow would gladly trade his hat for a walking stick to rest his tired arms. Chicken doesn't have a walking stick to trade—but she knows someone who does. Author-illustrator Ken Brown pairs vivid, realistic watercolors with an inventive plot, engaging sequencing, and repetition to tell a charming circular story packed with relatable themes of friendship, bartering, and problem-solving. This award-winning title is an ideal story time choice for autumn and harvest themes.




The Wretched Stone


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A strange glowing stone picked up on a sea voyage captivates a ship's crew and has a terrible transforming effect on them.




Charlie Anderson


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Two Bad Ants


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When two bad ants desert from their colony, they experience a dangerous adventure that convinces them to return to their former safety.




The Stranger


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The enigmatic origins of the stranger that Farmer Bailey hits with his truck and brings home to recuperate seem to have a mysterious relation to the weather. Could he be Jack Frost? "The author-illustrator has woven a thread of fantasy in and around his realistic illustrations to give the reader, once again, a story that stays in the imagination." -- Horn Book




Inferences and Drawing Conclusions, Grades 4-8


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Nonfiction passages and test-formatted questions give kids the practice they need to build these reading comprehension skills.