Capture your students’ attention and improve their reading comprehension skills with high-interest history and science topics!
This book 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. A chart of skills and answer key included.
The stories encompass 5 themes:
• Hidden Treasures and Other Mysteries • Creatures of the Earth and Sea • Inventors and Inventions • Heroes and Heroines • American Heritage and History.
This versatile book is ideally suited for use in a differentiated classroom. Each four-page unit in the collection covers a wide variety of skills while providing activities suitable for differing ability levels.
The following activities are included with each story:
• Preview Words • A Question in Test Format • At least two Sentence Writing Questions • Several Literal Comprehension Questions • Several Critical Thinking Questions based on Bloom’s Taxonomy • A Research/Writing Activity • A Review Page in Cloze Format.
A wonderful supplement to any reading, history, or science program!