Children learn how to create a variety of book reports while learning essential literature skills.

Children learn how to create a variety of book reports while learning essential literature skills.

Guided Reading: Synthesize for third and fourth grades features 36 readers—six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers. Filled with charts and photos, it enhances lesson plans with informational text about light, food webs, snow, invertebrates, and more. Guided Reading: Synthesize provides you with a comprehensive guided reading resource. This reading comprehension resource book series includes: -prompts to encourage students to work with the text and text features -discussion guides -leveled readers with intriguing topics -graphic organizers and an observation sheet Separated into three readability levels, the nonfiction readers capture students’ attention with appealing topics, colorful photos, graphic charts, and detailed maps. Students are encouraged to apply guided reading strategies to the text and complete writing prompts to prove comprehension. Available for grades 1–6, the 12-book Ready to Go: Guided Reading series makes guided reading organization easier with this all-in-one set. These 80-page resource books feature six discussion guides, three reproducible pages, and 36 readers. Four books are in the series—each focusing on one of the following comprehension strategies: -Analyze -Determine Importance -Synthesize -Visualize These resource books contain short informational texts, photographs, charts, maps, and vocabulary banks to keep students engaged in the reading and writing process.

23 reproducible stories for practicing comprehension, developing vocabulary, letter-sound association, word families, and rhyming.

14 fun and easy scripts are the perfect way to get students to read the same selection over and over without getting bored. As students practice and learn their parts, they begin to read the text with greater fluency, confidence, and dramatic expression Help students reading at C-H reading levels build fluency, automaticity, and comprehension using motivating and repeated reading practice Reproducible minibook scripts, picture dictionaries, practice pages, and chants make it easy.

In this Grade 4 Teacher's Resource Guide, you will find:10 best practices for close reading applied to small group instruction; Strategies for differentiating instruction for on grade level, approaching grade level, above grade level, and English Language Learners; Mini-lessons to teach the process of independent close reading; A launching lesson for each unit; Lessons for all six books (3 literary sources and 3 informational sources) that include independent close reading, follow-up text-dependent questions, and a skill matched to the selected passages; A text-to-text lesson at the end of the unit integrating all sources; Assessment tasks aligned to Common Core Standards and Depth of Knowledge; Rubrics, checklists, annotation sheets, skill targets, answer frames, and more to help you scaffold student learning.