After reading brief nonfiction passages about science, geography, or history topics, students answer multiple-choice and short-answer questions to build seven essential comprehension skills.
The activities target standards in these areas:
main idea
making predictions
drawing conclusions/making inferences
stating opinions and offering supporting details
Paperback. 48 pages. Reproducible.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Meeting Standards and Benchmarks
How to Use this Book
Achievement Graph
Practice Passages
Trouble in the Coral Reefs
Mount Rushmore
Science Passages
Beaver Dams
Light
Water Is an Amazing Matter
Your Remarkable Body
Dandelions: Flowers or Food?
May the Force Be With You
Geography Passages
The Orphan Trains
A Most Unusual Fish
A Highway in the Atlanic Ocean
The Wonderful Walrus
Blizzard!
Looking for New Ways to Make Electricity
History Passages
Mummies in Ancient Egypt
To Oregon or Bust!
The Quaker Who Shook Things Up
The Viking Ships
The Generous Doctor
The Pipes that Changed America
Answer Key
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