What's In This Book
Drawing Conclusions: Each of these twenty pages contains a poem, a group of sentences and three paragraphs. Reading levels range from 2.1 to 3.9. The directions on each page instruct students to read each passage, draw a conclusion from it and then underline the best answer from four listed.
Vocabulary Development: Each of these twenty pages contains an interesting story with six multiple choice questions. Questions 1·3 deal with definitions. Question 4 deals with pronoun referents and questions 5 and 6 deal with synonyms and antonyms. Reading levels of the stories range from 2.2 to 3.9 and appear in order from easiest to the most difficult.
Sequencing: On each of these twenty pages, the students will be putting many different
things in their proper sequence, such as: cartoons, words in a sentence, phrases in a
sentence, events in a story, steps in a recipe and more. The stories on pages 51·60 are written for reading levels from 2.5 to 3.8. This is presented in an effective learning order beginning with pages that require little or no reading and progressing to stories.
Main Idea: These twenty pages approach the skill of finding the main idea from the basic concept of categorizing and progressing to finding the main idea of a paragraph. Some of the activities included are: categorizing lists of words, finding the main idea of a list of words, matching poems and paragraphs to the correct titles, underlining topic sentences and more. Reading levels of the paragraphs and short stories range from 2.3 to 3.9
Following Directions: Each of these twenty pages contains simple directions for the student to read and follow. The students will also be working with these skill areas: addition and subtraction, fractions, alphabetical order, long and short vowel sounds, suffixes, plurals and more. It is not necessary to present them in any specific order.
