Ages: 7-10
Grades: 2-5

Students are more effective readers when they learn to compare and contrast. These stories and comprehension questions help students understand the authors' purpose and reasoning. The book has 11 reading lessons with three levels of controlled readability: 2.0-2.9, 3.0-3.9, and 4.0-4.9. Each lesson consists of a one-page, illustrated reading passage and two pages of reading comprehension tasks that require students to:

• identify the main idea and detect details
• learn vocabulary and semantics
• compare and contrast information
• formulate a question related to the story topic
• complete a writing activity

The reading comprehension questions are similar to those found on classroom and national reading comprehension tests. Questions challenge students to think about the reading passage and use reasoning skills. Most of the questions are multiple-choice with some true/false questions.

40 pages • 8.5 x 11, softcover • ©2005