Publisher's Synopsis
Help your eighth grade students learn how to understand, respond to, and enjoy what they read!
Daily Reading Comprehension presents students with 30 weeks of direct instruction and practice of the comprehension strategies and skills they need to become strong and successful readers
What's Inside:
- 150 original fiction and nonfiction passages with comprehension items help you engage students in reading, thinking about, and responding to a variety of texts.
- Reproducible visual aid pages help students apply reading skills to the passages they read.
- Follow-up activities for each passage in an exam format - Students to practice important test-taking skills while they strengthen comprehension.
30 weeks of instruction cover the following grade 8 reading skills and strategies:
Skills:
- Theme
- Evaluate Evidence
- Character and Setting
- Main Idea and Details
- Visual Information
- Author's Purpose
- Prediction
- Make Inferences
- Cause and Effect
- Compare and Contrast
- Nonfiction Text Features
- Sequence
Strategies:
- Monitor Comprehension
- Make Connections
- Visualization
- Organization
- Determine Important Information
- Ask Questions
You'll love Daily Reading Comprehension because it...
- provides students with direct instruction and practice of reading skills and strategies.
- supports struggling and reluctant readers.
- integrates easily into any language program and any classroom.
- works great for test prep.
- is correlated to current standards.
About Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Igniting young minds to help every child learn and succeed! Evan-Moor creates engaging and meaningful learning resources for children in grades PreK - 8. Trusted by parents and teachers for over 45 years, Evan-Moor's award-winning resources are thoughtfully developed to nurture children's hearts and minds to help them reach their full potential.
