Reading Comprehension

This resource is directly related to its literature equivalent and filled with a variety of cross-curricular lessons to do before, during, and after reading the book. This reproducible book includes sample plans, author information, vocabulary building ideas, cross-curriculum activities, sectional activities and quizzes, unit tests, and ideas for culminating and extending the novel.

This popular series offers nonfiction reading passages with comprehension questions on a variety of subjects for students in second grade through junior high school and beyond. Topics and questions pr

Western civilization begins with the Iliad and Odyssey. Our study guide is based on the Samuel Butler translation of Homer's epic works. This is a perfect place to start your study of the Great Books. This Teacher Guide has the student pages inset with the answers, and each lesson has teacher notes around the inset student pages, giving the teacher all the background information needed to teach these books. This guide will help bring Homer's great works alive for your student.

Children who are asked to read slightly above their comfort level will develop into superior readers. Reading requires an active, discriminating mind that is challenged to think, compare, and contrast. Our literature study guides train students to become active readers. They focus on vocabulary, spelling, comprehension, and composition skills. The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare is the journey of a Jewish boy at the time of Christ from blind hatred to the acceptance and understanding of love.

Julius Caesar has been made emperor of Rome for life; many want to make him king. But some in the Roman Senate envy Caesar his success, and others fear what he may do with his power, and so they arrange his death. The conspirators discover that assassination is a messy tool for achieving power, however, and ruling Rome is more complicated than removing Caesar. Setting: Rome

This popular series offers nonfiction reading passages with comprehension questions on a variety of subjects for students in second grade through junior high school and beyond. Topics and questions pr

Fictional and nonfictional information combine in a dynamic series that encourages both eager and reluctant readers to dive into the reading scene! Best-seller!