Informational Passages for Text Marking and Close Reading Grade 5


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High-interest reproducible informational passages provide text-marking practice that help students read closely, build comprehension skills, and meet higher standards.




Informational Passages for Text-Marking Ans Close Reading, Grade 2


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High-interest reproducible informational passages provide text-marking practice that help students read closely, build comprehension skills, and meet higher standards.




Text-Marking Lessons for Active Nonfiction Reading


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Dozens of high-interest reproducible passages provide text marking practice that helps students build comprehension skills.




Close Reading with Paired Texts Level K


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Teach kindergarten students close reading strategies that strengthen their fluency and comprehension skills! Students will read and analyze various types of texts to get the most out of the rich content. Their reading skills will improve as they answer text-dependent questions, compare and contrast texts, and learn to use close reading strategies on their own! The lessons are designed to make close reading strategies accessible, interactive, grade appropriate, and fun. The lesson plans are easy to follow, and offer a practical model built on research-based comprehension and fluency strategies.




Literary Passages - Close Reading, Grade 6


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High-interest reproducible literary passages provide text-marking practice that helps students read closely, build comprehension skills, and meet higher standards!




100 Task Cards: Text Evidence


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Give students the tools they need to meet--and exceed--the new language-arts standards in just ten minutes a day! Each book in this series contains 100 reproducible cards stocked with high-interest mini-passages and key questions to quickly hone comprehension skills. Focus topics include main idea and details, making inferences, summarizing, predicting, citing text evidence, author's purpose, and much more. Perfect for whole-class, group, or independent learning.




24 Nonfiction Passages for Test Practice


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Boost your students' reading comprehension and critical-thinking skills using all kinds of high-interest nonfiction sources. From how-to guides and letters to news stories and advertisements, these ready-to-reproduce passages and companion questions will give your students the practice they need to understand the information they see and read every day -- and succeed on standardized tests! Book jacket.







25 Complex Text Passages to Meet the Common Core: Literature and Informational Texts: Grades 7-8


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With the rigorous reading standards called for in the Common Core State Standards, teachers need easy access to reading passages at an increasing level of complexity so students will have opportunities to read closely and stretch their skills as the school year progresses. This collection of passages offers just that. Each of the 25 passages comes with text-dependent comprehension questions, including open-ended questions that require students to use higher-order thinking skills when writing their responses. The lessons include teaching tips that target the challenges students will encounter in the passage and provide text-complexity information-- quantitative (Lexile level), qualitative, and reader and task considerations--to help teachers meet the needs of their class. For use with Grades 7-8.