A great way to build the reading comprehension skills kids need to become better readers and successful test takers.

The sure-fire and easy way to build the reading comprehension skills kids need to succeed! Forty short passages are paired with graphic organizers to help all kids easily learn how to find the main idea, understand cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence events, and more. Watch test scores soar. For use with Grades 2-3.

Interactive SMART Board lessons focus on finding the main idea, understanding cause and effect, comparing and contrasting, and sequencing events.

58 color reproducible graphic organizers to help your students comprehend any book or piece of literature in a visual way. Our graphic organizers enable readers to see how ideas fit together, and can be used to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your students' thought processes. Our graphic organizers are essential learning tools that will help your students construct meaning and understand what they are reading. They will help you observe your students' thinking process on what you read as a class, as a group, or independently, and can be used for assessment. They include: Story Maps, Plot Development, Character Webs, Predicting Outcomes, Inferencing, Foreshadowing, Characterization, Sequencing Maps, Cause-Effect Timelines, Themes, Story Summaries and Venn Diagrams.

Interactive SMART Board lessons focus on finding the main idea, understanding cause and effect, comparing and contrasting, and sequencing events.

Help students become purposeful and thoughtful readers with this collection of high-interest reading passages and companion graphic organizers, comprehension questions, and practice bubble tests. Teachers will find these easy-to-manage homework activities encourage students' ability to understand what they read, learn important content, and build confidence in their test-taking skills. They will practice paying attention to detail, determining the meanings of words in context, and much more. For use with Grades 4-8.

These comprehension-boosting graphic organizers are designed for use with fiction and nonfiction books. The simple formats help young readers really think about what they read, then record their thoughts in an organized, meaningful way.--[book cover].