Book Description

The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) divide reading skills into three areas: Understanding and Analysis Across Genres, Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts, and Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts. This workbook focuses specifically on informational texts, but also covers reading across genres. The book contains a wide range of informational passages organized by type. Each passage is followed by a complete full-length question set. This workbook will ensure that students have strong reading comprehension skills and can respond to challenging passages. Students will also be fully prepared for the informational reading tasks on the STAAR Reading tests. Focuses on Understanding and Analyzing Informational Texts - Includes 18 practice sets containing a wide range of informational texts - Covers all the passage types described in the TEKS including culture and history texts, expository texts, persuasive texts, and procedural tests - Includes science and history articles, reviews, interviews, speeches, flyers, advertisements, biographies, opinion pieces, and how-to articles - Each passage is followed by a full set of 15 questions with a range of formats - Complete reading comprehension question sets provide extensive practice responding to and analyzing texts Advanced Skill Development - Covers all the skills listed in the Informational Texts section of the TEKS including media literacy - Also covers the skills listed in the Understanding and Analysis Across Genres section of the TEKS - Provides focused practice with a wide range of passage types - Challenging passages build strong reading comprehension skills - Complex passages include embedded features like charts, tables, graphs, diagrams, quotations, sidebars, and photographs - Provides experience with a wide range of question types Preparation for the STAAR Reading Assessments - Provides experience with a wide range of informational text types - Develops the student's ability to respond to and analyze challenging texts - Ensures that students are able to analyze complex text features - Wide range of question formats challenge students and encourage strong skill development - Ongoing practice builds confidence