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
drawing conclusions/making inferences
context clues
ideas and opinions as personal responses to reading
Paperback. 48 pages. Reproducible.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Meeting Standards and Benchmarks
How to Use this Book
Achievement Graph
Practice Passages
The Inventions of Ancient China
Unseen Volcanoes Build New Land
Science Passages
Changing with the Environment
Niagara Falls: A Changing Natural Wonder
The Amazing World Beneath Our Feet
Your Remarkable Body
Wild Weather
A Man Concerned with Safety
Geography Passages
Nature's Recycling
El Niño Brings Weird Weather
Staying in Balance
Changing the Chinchilla
The Mighty Redwood
We Need Wetlands
History Passages
Communicating Then and Now
Visiting the Moon
World War II Submarines
The Sky's the Limit
Working for the Right to Work
Sacagawea Helped Explore America
Answer Key
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