Basic Reading Series

Reading level: 1 - 2
Interest level: 2 - 10

This reading comprehension program provides teaching strategies and practice activities that help teachers make the most of their students’ reading instruction  The series addresses essential, basic reading comprehension skills. Each book features over 100 activities that utilize multiple instructional modalities, making the program effective for students with different learning styles. Topics and activities are appropriate for middle and high school students struggling with reading.

Each series includes Reproducible Activities tied to National Reading Standards, Teacher Instruction Pages, Reflect and Review Activities, a Correlations Chart, a Progress Chart, Assessments, and an Answer Key.

ActivitiesTeaching instruction pages with directions for introducing and applying each skill. Numerous follow-up activity sheets provide students with multiple opportunities for practicing critical reading comprehension skills. Activities progress in difficulty while maintaining a low reading level, remaining short in length, and continuing to use simple vocabulary. Both fiction and nonfiction passages feature high-interest, "real-world" topics and visual aids, such as charts and time lines, that captivate students'' interest.  Activities are appropriate for individual, small-group, and whole-class instruction.

Correlations Chart: Use the correlations chart to quickly reference specific skills or to tie certain activities to other curriculum areas.

Review and Assessment: Reflect and Review activities cover several previously taught skills, showing students how skills are interrelated and how they build upon one another. Two assessments in test-preparation format are included at the end of each unit, and comprehensive final assessments are provided at the end of each book.

Series 1 (180 pages) introduces and simplifies ten basic reading skills. Series 2 (180 pages) builds on and reinforces skills introduced in Series 1. Series 3 (175 pages) addresses higher level thinking and reading skills not taught as individual skills

Units:

• Context clues
• Drawing conclusions
• Cause and effect
• Summarizing
• Details
• Fiction and nonfiction
• Main idea (books 1 and 2)
• Story elements
• Fact and opinion
• Sequencing (book 3)
• Predicting outcome