Reading Comprehension

Reading Detective's standards-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. The activities are especially effective at helping students understand more challenging reading concepts such as drawing inferences, determining cause and effect, and using context clues to define vocabulary. Students read and analyze short literature excerpts and stories that include fiction and nonfiction content. Then they answer multiple-choice and short-response questions, citing sentence-level evidence to support their answers. A1 level includes mixed-skills throughout and provides an introductory lesson for each skill.

"Curriculum connections, vocabulary, unit tests, critical thinking"--Cover.

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 Courage of Sarah Noble is the story of a young girl and her family as they seek to build a new home in the wilderness in the early 1700s. The answer key is included in Memoria Press' Second Grade Literature, Teacher Key.