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Non-fiction text structures organize information into comprehensible patterns. Knowing how to recognize and use these structures to navigate non-fiction text greatly improves students understanding of what they read.

Gail Saunders-Smith simplifies the process by providing teachers of grades 4-8 with:

-strategies for teaching each of the five non-fiction text structures: compare/contrast, cause/effect, sequence/procedure, question/answer, and exemplification
-engaging whole-class and small-group mini-lessons and activities using written, verbal, image, three-dimensional, and technology responses
-study skills for locating, recording, and using information
-tools for assessing student understanding, and explanations of the text features that organize information within the text structures.

Examples, photographs, student samples, and graphic organizers support your teaching, and a bibliography of professional books and resources for locating leveled non-fiction texts make this a complete, ready-to-use guide for improving student comprehension. ... Read more

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Ideal for home schooling as well as traditional classroom curriculums
The newest addition to the outstanding 'Flip' series from Maupin House Publishing, "Flip For Non-Fiction Comprehension" by Emily Cayuso (an instructional coordinator and reading specialist in San Antonio, Texas) features fifty-five 'kid friendly' lessons focused on the specific strategies, text features, and text structures appropriate for students in grades K-5. A free-standing, tabletop book, "Flip For Non-Fiction Comprehension" provides thoroughly 'user accessible' comprehension exercises specifically designed to enhance reading comprehension skills. Each of these elements can be incorporated into classroom activities before, during, or after reading. A highly recommended curriculum supplement for building student reading comprehension skills with respect to non-fiction texts, "Flip For Non-Fiction Comprehension" is ideal for home schooling as well as traditional classroom curriculums.
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Build reading comprehension skills-and reach every learner-with graphic organizers and activity sheets you can use for any book. Key skills covered include making predictions, identifying main ideas, using context clues, analyzing cause and effect, and many more! Each skill is paired with three student pages designed to support individual learning needs at three levels: introductory, intermediate, and challenging. For use with Grades 4-8. ... Read more

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Extremely happy
This is great for students that finished early. This helps them creativly summarize the text that they just read. Great product.

Great Resource
I think this book is a great resource in a language arts class.Some of the worksheets might need better explanations or a little tweaking, but overall there are some good worksheets that help teach common elements like main idea, setting, and making predictions.

frefreshing new ideas
This book includes new refreshing ways to tackle learning to read.It will remind the adults of what they learned and enable them to share ideas to help learning reading and comprehension.This book will enhance learning in all subjects...

Excellent Resource
This book is an excellent resource for anyone teaching reading.The worksheets can be utilized with any book though suggestions are given.The worksheets hit almost every important reading topic a 5th grader needs to know.Getting a different assignment than their neighbor has not been an issue for any of my students.This book allows each student in my class to get practice with the same topic but on their own academic level.I plan on ordering this book for writing as well! ... Read more

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To face a world of Spanish in print, students need to read fluently,critically, and for meaning. Reading skills covered in SpanishReading Comprehension include drawing conclusions, identifying mainidea, building vocabulary, and determining fact or opinion. Directions,activities, and answer key are all in Spanish. Reproducible.

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Reading for Information in Elementary School: Content Literacy Strategies to Build Comprehension was written to give k-5 teachers the tools they need to lay an educational groundwork that promotes students’ success with informational text from the early grades.  Packed with research-based, classroom-proven strategies, the book follows a before, during, and after reading format that models the most effective approach to reading for information, focusing on the processes required to develop content literacy.  You’ll meet the teachers, sit in on their lessons, witness their students’ responses, and come away from this book with a model for teaching your students to read successfully for information and a handbook of proven strategies to implement. 

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Quick Delivery
The seller mailed the book in a very timely manner and the book was in the quality expressed by the posting. I am very glad that I have purchased from this seller because I ordered the book a week before my class started and had it in hand for the first class.

Expanding Literacy across the Content Areas
I use this book as a resource for a continuing education grad class I teach. It is integral that K-5 teachers understand the nature of content area curriculum and not leave it for the secondary school teachers. This book is an excellent starting point in reaching the goals of content area curriculum in the K-5 grades that go beyond simply reading. The authors lay down the essentials to equip primary and elementary teachers with the background and tools needed to lay a solid foundation for working with informational text.

Reading for Information
Reading for Information in Elementary Schools is an area that needs so much exposure and this titile does just that. Teachers and future teachers need to understand how important this concept is to future adults. This book provides a well-developed overview of this topic. It is easy to read and very informative. A must for elementary teachers. ... Read more

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Children must develop both decoding skills (the ability to 'sound out' words) and comprehension to become fluent readers. The colorfully illustrated exercies and interesting reading passages in this workbook build reading skills in both these critical areas. ... Read more

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Engaging Reproducibles That Help Students Use Reading Strategies, Learn About Literary Elements, and Explore Genre\n\nBy Anina Robb\n\nManage Independent Reading!\nReproducible graphic organizers to help students use key reading strategies, including making predictions, summarizing, inferring information, identifying main ideas, and so much more. With organizers for fiction and nonfiction genres, this is just the resource you need to help your students become strategic, independent readers.\n\n80 pages 8-1/2" x 11"\nGrades 2-4 ... Read more

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Very useful!
This is such a handy book to get fresh ideas for the kids who just "don't get it."It keeps them interested and it makes reading an easier task for them.I highly recommend buying it.

Not Very Good
I really did not get the type of graphic organizers that I was expecting.Many of them were designed around pictures and did not address the topic at hand. ... Read more

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Strategies for helping children read with ease, confidence and understanding. ... Read more

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Valuable resource
I bought this book to bone up for the upcoming school year. I have been teaching fourth and fifth grade resource the last few years and I was a little apprehensive about returning to "word study" work after hearing that I'll be moving to second grade resource. This book is invaluable. Co-written in part by Gay Su Pinnell it provides most of the essential material included in all of the Fountas and Pinnell books we've used for years. But the key word is "essential" so it provides quicker and easier access, yet not watered down material, compared to their classic books. Pinnell and co-writer Patricia Scharer provide foundation and strategy material for both reading and writing blocks that no doubt you will use. Very valuable will be the appendix that lists books to use with emergent, early, and transitional readers. Highly recommended.

A Great Resource
This book belongs in every primary educators classroom.It is such a resourceful tool. The strategies and structures that readers need to understand books and the changes those readers experience as they move up the primary grades is discussed in this book.This book is really useful for that second grade teacher, who doesn't quite know how reading comprehension changes from first to second grade. This book provides the teacher with many strategies, planning and organizational tips.This is a necessary book.Quite informative.

An excellent Choice
This book has many practical ideas as well as good instructional practices. It is a must read for primary teachers! ... Read more

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Great Series
This is an excellent series for learning reading comprehension.Each book slightly overlaps the other so that you know that the concepts are thoroughly learned and practiced.The stories are engaging and fun so my children never minded reading them.There are enough easy questions in each chapter to keep a child going, and enough challenging questions to make sure the child is moving forward.

Perfect comprehension workbook for the emerging reader.
Claws and Paws is the second in a series of reading comprehension books by Steck-Vaughn. It is aimed at the primary reader who can read at about the grade one/two level.It takes the reader progressively through more andmore difficult questions about the stories just read as it works throughstories 1-16.It combines multiple choice, sequencing, vocabularymatching, and follow the direction types of questions.It asks for an allround thinking process.The questions avoid being inferencial and thefocus is on direct, objective answers that can be found in the story. Thestories are usually interesting and approximately one page long or less. The questions for each story ask for approximately 25 answers. ... Read more

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My son adores it.
My son of 7 likes to do " brighter child", I don't have to ask him twice. He likes comprehension and is using his imaginesion and tells me stories of his mind. He enjoys it and I enjoy his stories. It starts withlittle simple stories. Later on it becomes a little longer, but then my sonis also a little older- very good. Hopefully your children and you willenjoy it such as we do. ... Read more

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A flexible, high-interest program for grades 1-3 that can be used with all regular and special students.  Each volume provides more than 45 factual stories with related teaching materials. ... Read more

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reading comprehension
This book could be a valuable addition to any teacher's resources. It is full of leveled stories. Each story has a series of work sheets that give students practice using higher level thinking skills. Most of the answers require short written responses. Writing is almost always a weak area for young children. This book provides good directed practice in answering questions.

Reading Stories for Comprehension Success: Primary Level, Grades 1-3
Great resource!I use the stories and questions with at risk special education students.The book includes many activities to encourage comprehension of text by using experiential activities.

Reading COmprehension
This is a terrific teacher aid.It walks you through an entire lesson or you can adapt and use it as a literacy center activity.

A Great Book-A Must For Elementary School Teachers
Primary Level : 45 High-Interest Lessons With Reproducible Selections and Questions That Make Kids Think is an excellent resource for elementary school teachers. The lessons and stories are categorized by grade levels. One of the best books I have come across in a long time.A vast array ofpre-reading and post-reading activities are included.Best of all are thefifteen questions at the end of each story.These questions includedescriptive, sequential, and builds up to effect, summarization, fact andopinion. This book is a must for any teacher with struggling readers whoneed extra practice and strategies in learning how to comprehend readingmaterials. ... Read more

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I read it review
If you know how to teach reading,"I Read It, But I Don't Get it" is a very good review. The worksheets she provides are also helpful.

Great Desk Reference
I am currently getting a master's in reading and this is a great book to share with other staff members who do not have the background that I currently do. It is a great desk reference. Makes sense and has good idears for classroom use.

Great ideas adn Common Sense
I picked this book up for a class and it was a worthwhile purchase.Chris points out what we proabably should have realized by know and shows us what we can do to make sure our students are getting the education theu deserve.I work in both the elementary and middle school setting and while teh elementary set is doing its best to teach reading......reading is not something you learn once and understand.THis book proivides great insight and pratical solutions

Fantastic!
This book provides excellent strategies and insights for instructing struggling adolescent readers.Gives real-world examples from the author as well as mutliple techniques to use in the classroom or even to teach your own child better reading strategies.

A must read for teachers of all subjects
This book changed the way I teach on a daily basis.As an 11th grade US history teacher in the Bronx, I was tired of assigning short passages for my students to read and many of them getting nothing from it.Tovani's reading strategies instantly made my students more successful.Talking to them about what good readers do demystified the process and placed the responsibility and power to interpret text back in their hands. ... Read more

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Concept Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) is a unique, classroom-tested model of reading instruction that breaks new ground by explicitly showing how content knowledge, reading strategies, and motivational support all merge in successful reading instruction. A theoretical perspective (engagement in reading) frames the book and provides a backdrop for its linkage between hands-on science activities and reading comprehension. Currently funded by the Interagency Educational Research Initiative (IERI), this model has been extensively class tested and is receiving national attention that includes being featured on a PBS special on the teaching of reading.

Key features of this outstanding new volume include:
*Theoretical Focus--CORI's teaching framework revolves around the engagement perspective of reading: how engaged reading develops and the classroom contexts and motivational supports that promote it.
*Content-Area Focus--Although science is the content area around which CORI has been developed, its basic framework is applicable to other content areas.
*Focus on Strategy Instruction--CORI revolves around a specific set of reading strategies that the National Reading Panel (2000) found to be effective. In some current CORI classrooms collaborating teachers implement all aspects of CORI and in other classrooms teachers implement just the strategy instruction component.
*Illustrative Vignettes and Cases--Throughout the book vignettes and mini-case studies convey a situated view of instructional practices for reading comprehension and engagement. A detailed case study of one teacher and of the reading progress of her students is featured in one chapter.

This book is appropriate for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in education and psychology, for practicing teachers, and for researchers in reading comprehension and motivation.
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Immensely helpful
I was looking to improve my reading comprehension skills and this book helped a lot.
All the practice passages have detailed explanation about both right and wrong answers - which is very helpful.

Very Helpfull - buy it
This is a very helpful book on Reading Section. One of the very few available ones on the market. I don't understand why there are so many books conserning LR and AR, and almost none conserning the reading. Reading was my most difficult section (as it is for many students- passages are long time is not enough, same problem..) and if there was more on the market about it I would have purchased it. Anyhow, this book is well written, explanatory, enough exercises.
The reason why I rate it with 4, not 5 stars is because it is not LSAT specific, but it also tells about MCAT, GMAT, etc. Which is important when it comes to the length of passages in the excercise section which takes up 130 out of 180 pages from the book. There are passages of different lengths from 30 to 80 lines, covering the formats of the passages given on GMAT, MCAT, etc. But what we need for LSAT - are passages of 55 - 60 lines so we can properly time ourselves and as we all know on the LSAT - TIME IS EVERYTHING.
In conclusion: helpful book - get it.
P.S. If the publishers get to see that - consider improving it.

good book
I was preparing for GMAT and was very in Reading Comprehension. This book was helful to me especially the LSAT passages which were difficult compared to GMAT passages. explanations were good.

Time-wasting if not skill-diminishing
I've read this book for LSAT prep.While the selection of passages is excellent, crafting of questions is simply a bad joke.To be precise, it is mostly the answer choices that makes this book time-wasting, if not skill-diminishing.The answer choices in this book are just not the kind of choices that appear in an actual test.Especially annoying is that many "right" answer choices can be right only after a very very long stretch of logic, which NEVER happens in a real test.

Excellent study tool
This book helps the reader learn the correct way to annotate and outline the paragraphs on the reading comprehension section of the GRE*MCAT*LSAT*GMAT.It was very helpful. ... Read more

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Teacher Must-Have
This book provides excellent strategies to teach Language Arts. I use this book with my M.Ed/Credentialing program at UCSD. This book is great for teachers who need simple strategies to implement into the classroom that will help develop students' reading comprehension skills. I especially like the different types of reading material that the authors suggest to utilize for teaching explicit reading strategies. With this book you will be fully equipped to teach students how to be better readers. Let's get kids moving beyond just summarizing the passage they read and really get into the realm of critical and reflective thinking.

Great book - Good shape - Awesome price
While not in pristine shape the price can't be beat. It reads just the same and I appreciate the rapid response.

Teaching Comprehension Strategies
I absolutely love this book!It is one of the best strategies instruction books I have ever owned. I bought it to enhance my instructional strategies repertoire. The table of contents is well written.It is not full of jargon.It is well organized and easy to read. The initial forward contains a list of strategies and their use.The strategies are described and explain with the use of concrete examples.This makes is so easy to search for a strategy.For example, the making connections concept has over six different strategies that can be used with students.They are formated in the form of lessons so you don't have to rewrite the book to apply the strategy.Each strategy has a rational, guided practice, resources, and authentic work samples.Chapter 12 has an assessment component for assessing comprehension.

Strategies That Work
I got this book for a class. It was very informational. It is text heavy, so there isn't a lot of charts and graphs. The vignette were really useful to make the text applicable to a classroom. I think the price could have been a little lower though. It was only a couple of dollars cheaper then my bookstore price.

Great ideas
The ideas I got from this book were remarkable. Very easily integrated into the classroom for any grade.
Authors worked together nicely and came up with an easy to read and interesting teaching book. ... Read more

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This book incorporates the strongest and most current research available to help teachers actively involve their students in the reading comprehension process. Teachers receive expert guidance in a step-by-step format that clearly states and fully illustrates each of the 50 strategies. It delivers “must have” information that enables teachers to assess their students' current strategies.A six section organization enables teachers to easily access appropriate strategies for specific teaching objectives: word and sentence level comprehension, paragraph level comprehension, integrating background knowledge, holistic comprehension, self-monitoring strategies, and assessment to inform instruction.For elementary school teachers. ... Read more

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This ready-to-use tool kit of fun and functional strategies, based on the National Reading Panel Report, helps teach the most difficult piece of the reading process: comprehension. ... Read more

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60 strategies
Good strategies for 3 grade and up. For lower grades (k-2) the book doesn't offer many strategies.

An inclusive and easy-to-use reference of sixty distinctive and "kid friendly" classroom instruction strategies
60 Strategies For Improving Reading Comprehension In Grades K-8 by literary expert Kathleen Feeney Jonson is an inclusive and easy-to-use reference of sixty distinctive and "kid friendly" classroom instruction strategies which enable the teaching of what is the most difficult piece of the process of teaching reading comprehension. Providing the classroom teachers with grade-level recommendations, goals for each strategy, step-by-step instructions, graphics and examples of student work, and directions for modifying strategies for different grade levels, 60 Strategies For Improving Reading Comprehension In Grades K-8 is very strongly recommended -- especially to all teachers of lower-level and elementary students looking for a an adaptable reference and guidebook for the easiest and most effective approaches to teaching reading comprehension at the primary school level.

An inclusive and easy-to-use reference of sixty distinctive and "kid friendly" classroom instruction strategies
60 Strategies For Improving Reading Comprehension In Grades K-8 by literary expert Kathleen Feeney Jonson is an inclusive and easy-to-use reference of sixty distinctive and "kid friendly" classroom instruction strategies which enable the teaching of what is the most difficult piece of the process of teaching reading comprehension. Providing the classroom teachers with grade-level recommendations, goals for each strategy, step-by-step instructions, graphics and examples of student work, and directions for modifying strategies for different grade levels, 60 Strategies For Improving Reading Comprehension In Grades K-8 is very strongly recommended -- especially to all teachers of lower-level and elementary students looking for a an adaptable reference and guidebook for the easiest and most effective approaches to teaching reading comprehension at the primary school level.
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Master Skills Reading Comprehension, grade 5 is the perfectworkbook to help children “master” reading comprehension skillsnecessary to succeed in school!

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Great Condition
Book was in great condition and the material in the book was exactly what he was doing in school. ... Read more

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Engaging Forms That Guide Students to Use Reading Strategies and Recognize Literary Elements--and Help You Assess Comprehension
Manage Independent Reading!
The 50 interactive strategy sheets in this book help students use key reading strategies, including setting purposes for reading, making predictions, inferring information, identifying main ideas, and so much more. Includes sheets for fiction and nonfiction. ... Read more

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Not That Impressed...
This was just the kind of book I needed, but as it turned out, this particular one did not impress.The pages are not removable for easy copying, and there were some spelling mistakes that I came across in the few pages I actually wanted to use.Kind of surprising in a book written by a language arts teacher.

Keeps kids accountable while building strategic reading...
If you ask many English teachers, they implement a pedagogical strategy called "SSR" into their classroom Sustained, silent reading is where you have students sit and silently read for a certain period of time. Over the last four years of implementing this myself, I have seen a few problems with it. First of all, many students will just sit and stare at one page while daydreaming while others will struggle with what they are reading and end up finishing with no understanding.

This book is helpful because it forces the "daydreamers" to read. There are certain pages such as "storyboards" where students are asked to draw or describe what they have read. This keeps them accountable.

However, pages like these are also useful because it forces students who are having difficulty to analyze their understanding and perhaps implement strategies such as re-reading to help them understand. On the other hand, it is a great formative assessment for the teacher who can collect the sheets and see if what the students write or draw makes sense.

I do not think this is too young for the higher grades. I happen to be a seventh grade teacher and have used this for several years now.

Recommendedage groups should be lowered
I don't think this is a tool that is age-appropriate for the higher age groups (6th-8th) and really can't be (and no reason to be) modified for high school.There are several sheets to aid in illustrated stories, and effective worksheets to help with beginning to intermediate readers.

SSR reading helps
This book is great. There are 50 ideas for keeping kids from just staring at the page when they are doing sustained silent reading. A way to be accountable, without assigning one more book report. The forms themselves may be for elementary and middle age, but the ideas will translate beautifully to the high school kids who are still staring at the pages pretending to read.

reading strategies learned
I have researched many reading books for my child. This book is outstanding. Everyone seems to know what reading is about. Many parents buy reading books without much thought. This book is about reading with "intention" and "strategy". It's a skill-building training with clear methodology and objectives. It will systematically develop your child's true ability many other books won't do. It benefited my child tremendously. After applying this book for only one month, I started to see the difference. Now, they are the top readers in their classes. They often rank high in the Beestar weekly reading program (an excellent web site http://www.beestar.org). This fine book is truly thoughtful and is so effective. I highly recommend it. ... Read more