Teaches a depth of analysis that guarantees superior reading comprehension, top grades, and highest test scores!

Goals
These higher-order thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. The activities are especially effective at helping children understand more challenging reading concepts such as drawing inferences, making conclusions, determining cause-and-effect, and using context clues to define vocabulary.

Methods
The activities presented in Reading Detective Beginning level is organized into single-skill units with a concluding mixed-skills unit and provides an introductory lesson for each skill. This allows students to learn and practice a skill thoroughly before moving on. Students read and analyze stories and then answer multiple-choice and short response questions, citing sentence level evidence that supports their answers. The final unit includes mixed skills activities for additional practice and reinforcement. Stories include literature excerpts, original fiction, and nonfiction topics.

Teaching Support
Includes pretests, post-tests, lesson guidelines, and answers with detailed evidence. Reading and literary analysis skills are based on grade-level standards.

Test Performance
Reading Detective guarantees top performance on assessment tests, including:

• Stanford Achievement Test™ (SAT/9)
• California Achievement Tests (CAT/5)
• Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT)
• Iowa Tests of Basic Skills® (ITBS®)
• Secondary School Admissions Test (SSAT)
• Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP)
• Palmetto Assessment Challenge Test (PACT)
• NYC English Language Arts Test (ELA)
• and many more!

INTRODUCTION Teacher Overview Lesson and Practice Activity Answers Student Lesson: How to be a Reading Detective PRETESTS Mighty Hunter Bandit INFERENCE Lesson: Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences Wagons West Why Dogs Wag Their Tails Did Time Stand Still? An Old-fashioned Saturday Teeger Lead on, Sacagawea The Barn Sable VOCABULARY Lesson: Defining Vocabulary Using Context Frontier Women Lizard on the Loose George Washington Comes to Class Desert Survivor New World for the Old Help Solve the Garbage Problem STORY PARTS Lesson: Story Parts A View from Above A Foolish Wish First Wave Surprise Vacation A Puff of Smoke Invisible Spy Dexter MAIN IDEA Lesson: Identifying Main Idea and Supporting Details Your Sense of Taste The Wright Stuff False Face Society

THEME Lesson: Identifying Theme A Nutty Modern Folktale Home Away From Earth Giant Hoax The Cricket in Times Square CAUSE/EFFECT Lesson: Cause and Effect High-rise Doghouse Cat and Mouse Streetball Hero Northern Lights Space Chase The Secret of Popcorn “Tracks” from The Stories Huey Tells PREDICTION Lesson: Making Predictions Missing Ring The City Street Game Real Pirates Pinch, Pull, Coil Eddy the Bully How Lies are Detected Sideways Stories from Wayside School MIXED SKILLS Down the Drain All About Ants A Skateboarder Speaks Out A Mystery in Time Island Patriot Meteors A Long Distance Adventure Masai Culture Seven Kisses in a Row Chocolate Fever POSTTESTS Grandfather’s Medal Track and Field ANSWER KEYS GLOSSARY LITERATURE CITATIONS SAMPLE ACTIVITY FROM READING DETECTIVE™ A1

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