Capture your students’ attention and improve their reading comprehension skills with high-interest history and science topics! Each binder features 49 nonfiction stories based on themes ranging from pyramids and the D-Day Invasion to dolphins and wasps.
Following each story are three skill pages featuring literal and interpretive comprehension questions based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, sentence writing practice, and a research/writing activity. Tab dividers organize each topic into useful categories: Animals, Inventions, People, and Places & Events. Each binder includes 49 stories, a skills chart, answer key, and Resource CD.
The whiteboard-ready Resource CD includes the contents of the binder in PDF format, as well as a list of reading levels and word counts, CCSS standards, skill trace tracking spreadsheet, and more. These binders are a wonderful supplement to any reading, history, or science program! 206 pages each.
Binder Includes:
• 49 History & Science Stories
• Skills Chart
• Preview Words
• Questions in Test Format
• Sentence Writing Practice
• Critical Thinking Questions based on Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Research/Writing Activities
• Review Pages in Cloze Format
• Resource CD
Skills Covered Include:
• Cause and Effect
• Classifying Information
• Compare/Contrast
• Connecting
• Drawing Conclusions
• Evaluating Information
• Fact or Opinion
• Finding Facts/Reading for Details
• Main Idea
• Making Inferences
• Predicting Outcomes
• Questioning
• Research
• Sequence
• Summarizing Information
• Vocabulary
to download the Common Core State Standards that this program meets.