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Reading Detective B1
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Publisher: Critical Thinking Press
Type of Binding: Paperback
Number of Pages: 246, 50 Activities
For: Gr. 7-8


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Goals
These higher-order thinking, standards-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills children 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
Reading Detective B1 level begins with brief lessons that teach specific reading and literary analysis skills. Then students progress into mixed-skills activities involving literature, original fiction, and nonfiction stories. Students read and analyze stories and then answer multiple-choice and short-response questions, citing sentence-level evidence that supports their answers.

Teaching Support
This reproducible book 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:

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TEACHER INTRODUCTION
  • Teacher Overview
  • Skills Matrices


STUDENT SKILLS LESSONS
  • What is Reading Detective?
  • Making Inferences
  • Making Generalizations
  • Using Figurative Language
  • Using Literary Devices
  • Developing Vocabulary Using Context
  • Determining Fact vs. Opinion
  • Summarizing Information

PRETESTS
  • Fiction Pretest: Billy Brussels Sprouts
  • Nonfiction Pretest: The Hidden Cost of Buried Treasure

LITERATURE EXCERPTS and ACTIVITY PAGES
  • The Cay
  • Sparrow Hawk Red
  • El Güero
  • The Moon by Night
  • The Giver
  • Under the Blood-Red Sun
  • The View from Saturday
  • The Trolley to Yesterday
  • “How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin” from Just So Stories
  • Face to Face
  • The Bronze Bow
FICTIONAL SHORT STORIES and ACTIVITY PAGES
  • Head Chef at 14
  • Love from Camp Gitchigoomi
  • Race for Pepper
  • Sea Otter Attack
  • He Said, She Said
  • My Most Embarrassing Day
  • The Game Winner
  • A Test of Friendship
  • Old Woman of the Oak
  • Middle School: First Day Survival
  • A Dramatic Plea
  • The Way of the Wild
  • Amazon Adventure
  • Sketches of Summer
  • 15 Minutes of Fame
  • A Flood of Help
  • Diving In
  • The Comeback Can
  • The Prime Suspect
  • A Week in Ancient Greece

NONFICTION ARTICLES and ACTIVITY PAGES
  • Put Your Heart into It
  • Galileo’s Vision
  • Goalsetting
  • The Long and Short of Color
  • Making Apple Pie
  • Making Mountains
  • Researching the Renaissance
  • Soccer’s Deadly Weapon: Mia Hamm
  • Measuring Time
  • ElectroMagic
  • Sports Stats
  • Secrets of Special Effects
  • Emperor Kublai Khan
  • Is the Earth Heating Up?
  • Gimme Some Latitude! (and a little longitude wouldn’t hurt)
  • Finding the Career for You
  • Training for the Ballet
  • From Superman to X-Men
  • Secret Codes
  • The Making of the Constitution

POSTTESTS
  • Literature/Fiction Posttest: Treasure Island
  • Nonfiction Posttest: How Money Has Changed

ANSWER KEYS

GLOSSARY

LITERATURE CITATIONS

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