Are you looking for a way to teach reading skills to elementary students, while also teaching these growing minds to think and reflect on what they read? Then this is the program for you. Designed by veteran educator Joane Carlisle, this program will help develop critical reading skills for students in third through eighth grade. Clearly designed, logically-sequenced and easy to use!
These workbooks develop basic language and thinking skills that build the foundation for reading comprehension. Exercises reinforce reading as a critical reasoning activity. Many exercises encourage students to come up with their own response in instances where there is no single correct answer. In other cases, exercises lend themselves to students working collaboratively to see how many different answers satisfy a question.
All the books in the series share the following format:
Unit I, Word Meaning: comparing, contrasting, and classifying words, and discriminating between good and vague definitions
Unit II, Sentence Meaning: complete sentences, recognizing the main thought, as well as time order, cause and effect, comparison, generalizations, and examples
Unit III, Paragraph Meaning: topic sentences, signal words, unity, examples, and support for the main idea
Unit IV, Reasoning Skills: fact and opinion, relevance, syllogisms, and inferences
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