Practice Makes Perfect Advanced ESL Reading and Comprehension (EBOOK)

Practice Makes Perfect Advanced ESL Reading and Comprehension (EBOOK)

Author: Diane Engelhardt

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2013-07-24

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0071798870

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The challenging exercises and critical vocabulary you need to advance your English skills Created by ESL instructor Diane Engelhardt, Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Reading and Comprehension features lengthy, complex passages to help you develop essential English reading and critical thinking skills. Inside are 15 readings on topics such as DNA evidence, sustainable urban communities, the human genome project, and more--subjects that will keep you engaged as you take your English to the next level. You will get plenty of practice, practice, practice on understanding and comprehending high-level vocabulary through enlightening exercises. You’ll master how to organize information you read, summarize text, and more. Before you know it, your reading skills will be stronger and your comprehension will grow, enabling you to get more out of English-language texts. Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Reading and Comprehension will help you: Build your academic and technical vocabulary Boost your comprehension skills to an advanced level Create reading strategies to use with any difficult text Develop critical thinking skills


Some of My Best Friends are Books

Some of My Best Friends are Books

Author: Judith Wynn Halsted

Publisher: Great Potential Press, Inc.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 0910707960

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Recommends books for gifted readers that provide insights and coping skills for issues they may face from preschool through high school, featuring more than three hundred titles with brief summaries, organized by reading levels; and includes an index arranged by theme.


Reading Comprehension and Skills, Grade 1

Reading Comprehension and Skills, Grade 1

Author: Carson-Dellosa Publishing

Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing

Published: 2014-03-15

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1483804925

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Reading Comprehension and Skills for first grade is designed to help students develop a strong foundation of reading basics so that they will become competent readers who can advance to more challenging texts. It includes engaging passages and stories about a variety of subjects to appeal to all readers. The book also encourages vocabulary development and reinforces reading comprehension through leveled activity pages that target each student's individual needs for support. --Kelley Wingate's Reading Comprehension and Skills series is the perfect choice for both teachers and parents. This valuable reading and comprehension skills practice book provides nearly 100 reproducible pages of exciting activities, 96 durable flash cards, and a motivating award certificate. The differentiated activity pages give students the practice they need at a level that is perfect to help them master basic reading comprehension skills necessary to succeed and are great for use at both school and home.


The Advanced Reading-writing Connection

The Advanced Reading-writing Connection

Author: John Langan

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9781591944263

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The Advanced Reading-Writing Connection will help you become a more effective reader and writer. You will learn, in a nutshell, that good readers (1) recognize a main point and (2) recognize the support for that point, and that good writers (1) make a point and (2) support the point.


Differentiated Reading for Comprehension, Grade 1

Differentiated Reading for Comprehension, Grade 1

Author:

Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing

Published: 2014-02-03

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 1483810194

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Differentiated Reading for Comprehension is designed to provide high-interest, nonfiction reading success for all readers. This 64-page book focuses on first grade reading skills defined by the Common Core State Standards. Each of 15 stories is presented separately for the below-level, on-level, and advanced students, followed by a series of comprehension questions. Grade one covers such standards as main topic and key details, using text features to find information, identifying an author's purpose, and comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. This new series will allow teachers to present the same content to below-level, on-level, and advanced students with these leveled nonfiction stories. It includes multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and true/false questions; short-answer writing practice; and comprehension questions. Students stay interested, build confidence, and discover that reading can be fun! The reading passages will be separated into sections with titles such as Extreme Places, Amazing People, Wild Animals, Strange and Unexplained, Fascinating Machines, and Amazing Kids.


The Big Book of Reading Comprehension Activities, Grade 1

The Big Book of Reading Comprehension Activities, Grade 1

Author: Hannah Braun

Publisher: Zephyros Press

Published: 2019-04-16

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9781641522946

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The BIGGEST collection of fun-filled activities for reading comprehension! When school is out, learning doesn't have to stop. This big book is filled with engaging activities for 1st graders to get extra reading comprehension practice while having tons of F-U-N too. The Big Book of Reading Comprehension Activities helps kids learn to really understand what they're reading. Designed to give kids extra practice in key skills for their grade level, this book begins with easy lessons and advances to more challenging readings and exercises to keep your little reader's skills as sharp as their pencils! Inside this reading comprehension book, you'll find: 120 Awesome activities--Fun stories, crosswords, coloring, and more engage kids and make them want to learn. All levels--Kids build comprehension skills as they progress from easy to medium to harder exercises. Key skills--Guide your eager reader retell stories, describe main ideas, compare and contrast, and more with reading comprehension activities that support common core standards. Make extra practice extra fun with each and every reading comprehension activity in this book.


Dear Mr. Henshaw

Dear Mr. Henshaw

Author: Beverly Cleary

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-06

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 0061972150

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Newbery Medal Winner * Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children * ALA Notable Children’s Book Beverly Cleary’s timeless Newbery Medal-winning book explores difficult topics like divorce, insecurity, and bullying through the thoughts and emotions of a sixth-grade boy as he writes to his favorite author, Boyd Henshaw. After his parents separate, Leigh Botts moves to a new town with his mother. Struggling to make friends and deal with his anger toward his absent father, Leigh loses himself in a class assignment in which he must write to his favorite author. When Mr. Henshaw responds, the two form an unexpected friendship that will change Leigh’s life forever. From the beloved author of the Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse series comes an epistolary novel about how to navigate and heal from life’s growing pains.