Nonfiction Comprehension Cliffhangers

Author: Tom Conklin
Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
ISBN: 9780439897389
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
15 exciting--and true--stories for kids to read and then write or discuss their predictions about the story's ending ???? Helps build essential reading skills such as making inferences, drawing conclusions, summarizing, and more ???? Each reproducible nonfiction story comes with a companion teacher page ???? Stories span the curriculum, providing students with valuable reading in the content areas

Comprehension Cliffhanger Stories

Author: Tom Conklin
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780439159784
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
15 reproducible, kid-pleasing stories that are perfect for building essential reading skills such as predicting, making inferences, summarizing, and more.

Mysteries

Author: Bill Doyle
Publisher: Teaching Resources
ISBN: 9780545083157
Category : Critical thinking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Clue in students to key reading skills with this collection of 15 action-packed mysteries. As students read each case, they'll get the scoop on how to analyze character, read for details, understand cause and effect, make inferences, summarize, and so much more. Each reproducible story comes with a teacher page that includes before- and after-reading suggestions, writing and discussion prompts, and a vocabulary list.

Comprehension Activities for Reading in Social Studies and Science

Author: LeAnn Nickelsen
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780439098380
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
40 engaging before, during, and after-reading activities and reproducibles that help students get the most from textbooks and other nonfiction.--[front cover].

Cliffhanger Writing Prompts

Author: Teresa Klepinger
Publisher: Teaching Resources
ISBN: 9780545315111
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Use your imagination to write story endings for the prompts.

24 Nonfiction Passages for Test Practice

Author: Michael Priestley
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780439256100
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Offers twenty-four reproducible passages from "high interest" non-fiction sources, and provides a prereading question to assist students to focus on what they read, along with a standarized practice test for grades six through eight

The Not-So-Perfect Planet

Author: Pamela F. Service
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 1512458538
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Josh Higgins has an alien gizmo that lets him think his way to other planets—and he does NOT want to use it. But his sister Maggie won't stop bugging him, so he agrees to an off-world vacation. Josh dreams up a planet full of blue oceans, white beaches, and sunny weather. And he prepares for everything...well, almost. A parade of cranky creatures soon spoils Josh and Maggie's perfect getaway—including a one-horned beast, a sharp-toothed sea princess, and a two-tailed monkey. The planet's locals just can't get along, and Josh and Maggie find themselves caught up in the squabbling. As the Earth kids rush from one danger to another, will they discover a way to keep the peace? Or will Josh and Maggie become prisoners of the not-so-perfect planet?

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

Author: Martin Lee
Publisher: Teaching Resources
ISBN: 9780545577137
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

The Giver

Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054434068X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and exclusive Q&A with members of the cast, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites and Cameron Monaghan.

My Very First Space Book

Author: Emily Bone
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781409582007
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30

Book Description
This is non-fiction for very young children, who will find lots of things to look at and talk about in this highly visual book about what it was like in space. Space is a perennially fascinating subject for very young children who will love learning about spacecraft and exploration -- whilst the rich vocabularly will be invaluable when they start learning to read.