Daily Reading Comprehension, Grade 6 [Paperback]

Help your sixth grade students learn how to understand, respond to, and enjoy what they read!Daily Reading Comprehensionpresents students with direct instruction and practice of the comprehension strategies and skills they need to become strong and successful readers. 150 original fiction and nonfiction passages with comprehension items help you engage students in reading, thinking about, and responding to a variety of texts. Reproducible pages, included in the teachers edition, provide visual tools for students to help them apply reading skills to the passages they read. And because activities are presented in an exam format, students practice important test-taking skills while they strengthen comprehension.

• Visual aid comprehension pages. The reproducible pages provide students with a visual tool to help them apply reading skills and strategies to daily passages.
• Constructed response questions. Standards-aligned questions replace multiple-choice questions.

30 weeks of instruction cover the following reading skills and strategies:

Skills:

• Theme
• Evaluating Evidence
• Character and Setting
• Main Idea and Details
• Visual Information
• Authors Purpose
• Make Predictions
• Draw Conclusions
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Nonfiction Text Features
• Sequence

• Monitor Comprehension
• Make Connections
• Visualization
• Organization
• Determine Important Information
• Ask Questions

• provides students with direct instruction and practice of reading skills and strategies.
• supports struggling and reluctant readers.
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