As stand-alone resources or supplements to our READING SKILLS FOR LIFE program, these four worktexts offer in-depth study for struggling students. Each workbook draws on a core content area (Science, Social Studies, or Literature), providing cross-curricular reinforcement while teaching important reading skills. Students benefit from detailed chapter review tests and test-taking tips to help build test skills. Step-by-step exercises emphasize reading and writing habits such as outlining,... Read full description

As stand-alone resources or supplements to our READING SKILLS FOR LIFE program, these four worktexts offer in-depth study for struggling students. Each workbook draws on a core content area (Science, Social Studies, or Literature), providing cross-curricular reinforcement while teaching important reading skills.

Students benefit from detailed chapter review tests and test-taking tips to help build test skills. Step-by-step exercises emphasize reading and writing habits such as outlining, summary, and much more. Each workbook contains a minimum of 128 pages consisting of 2-3 page lesson activities. Practice activities include a variety of question formats as preparation for standardized testing. The workbooks follow a progression of reading levels from 2.0 to 6.0 with approximately 20-25 pages per level. Teacher’s guides include lesson-by-lesson teaching guidelines, answer keys and additional reproducible activities.

READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS
Partial contents include: Using Letter Sounds, Breaking Words into Syllables, Using Context Clues, Previewing and Predicting, Strategies During Reading, Using Resources to Clarify, Remembering What You Read, Finding Facts, Following Directions, Thinking Critically, Reading in the Content Areas of Social Studies and Science, Reading Literature, and more.

SPELLING AND VOCABULARY SKILLS
Partial contents include: Short Vowels, Long Vowels, Plurals, Consonant Combinations, Two-Syllable Words, Contractions, Prefixes, Suffixes, Synonyms, Antonyms, Homophones and Homographs, Compound Words, Endings, Related Word Forms, Silent Letters, and more.

WRITING AND GRAMMAR SKILLS
Partial contents include: Recognizing Sentences, Writing Short Sentences, Subject, Predicate, Joining Sentences to Make a Paragraph, Common and Proper Nouns, Capitalization, Singular and Plural Nouns, Action Verbs, Linking Verbs, Writing in Context Areas, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Punctuation, Writing About Literature, and more.

STUDY SKILLS
Partial contents include: Book Parts, Using an Index and a Glossary, Using a Dictionary, Test-Taking Strategies, Using the Library, Finding Information on the Internet, Understanding Textbook Features, Interpreting Maps and Globes, Interpreting Graphic Aids, Taking Notes, Thinking Critically, Real Life Reading and more.

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