Ages: 7-10
Grades: 2-5

Students go beyond simple understanding of what is read when they summarize the meaning of reading passages and tell the story in their own words. 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
• paraphrase and summarize the information read
• retell the story in their own words
• 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