Making Connections Student Book, Grade 4 (Homeschool Edition)

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 fourth graders- -short reading passages are followed by spiral-basedquestions designed to improve reading comprehension. MainIdea, compare/contrast, sequencing, fact/opinion, andcomprehension fill-in-the-blank and multiple choiceexercises follow. 87 pages, softcover. Grade 4.

Thisfourth grade curriculum covers identifying details,sequencing, the main idea, compare/contrast, drawingconclusions/predicting outcomes, and fact and opinion.Strategies employed include identifying text structure,questioning, learning cooperatively, understandingvocabulary, monitoring comprehension, summarizing, and more.

EPS'Making Connections curriculum can be used aseither a supplemental or stand-alone reading comprehensioncurriculum. Each unit focuses on a specific skill that'sintroduced and developed through explicit instruction,practice, and support, with support gradually removed toencourage independent reading.