This colorful text features high-interest fiction andnon-fiction stories with plenty of photographs andillustrations. Breaking reading down into engaging,manageable portions- - just right for first graders- - shortreading passages are followed by spiral-based questionsdesigned to improve reading comprehension. Main Idea,compare/contrast, sequencing, fact/opinion, andcomprehension fill-in-the-blank and multiple choiceexercises follow. 87 pages, softcover. Grade 1.
Thisfirst grade curriculum covers identifying text structure,sequencing, the main idea, and compare/contrast. Strategiesemployed include identifying text structure, questioning,learning cooperatively, understanding vocabulary, monitoringcomprehension, summarizing, applying multiple strategies,and more.
EPS' Making Connections curriculumcan be used as either a supplemental or stand-alone readingcomprehension curriculum. Each unit focuses on a specificskill that's introduced and developed through explicitinstruction, practice, and support, with support graduallyremoved to encourage independent reading.
