Tips & Tricks for Analyzing Text and Citing Evidence
Tips & Tricks for Analyzing Text and Citing Evidence

Author: Sandra K. Athans

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1477775412

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The Common Core standards were created to help readers get the most out of every book they read, inside and outside of the classroom. Training students to understand how to read critically is highly important and will help prepare them for college, career, and life beyond that. This engaging volume asks readers to look closely at individual passages of text, analyze their meaning, and look at the evidence that supports their meaning. Quiz questions create an interactive experience for readers, allowing them to get the most out of what they read.

Tips & Tricks for Analyzing Structure and Evaluating Ideas
Tips & Tricks for Analyzing Structure and Evaluating Ideas

Author: Sandra K. Athans

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 1477775366

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The ability to recognize and analyze the structure and ideas behind a piece of writing is an enormous part of the Common Core Standard for Reading. The Common Core was developed to give readers and students the tools they need to succeed in school and in a career situation. This volume contains poetry by Robert Frost and Edgar Allan Poe and science writing excerpts, with quiz questions and advice from experts on how to best read and interpret the work.

Tips and Tricks for Summarizing Text
Tips and Tricks for Summarizing Text

Author: Sandra K. Athans

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 1477775846

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The Common Core is an important tool that schools use to help students get the most out of everything they read. The ability to summarize text is one that is needed from the earliest reading comprehension lesson up through high school, college, and beyond. Lengthy nonfiction passages are included in this comprehensive volume, along with expert reader advice, quiz questions, and charts that help to guide the reader through using his or her newly discovered skills at the highest level.

Tips & Tricks for Comparing and Contrasting Texts
Tips & Tricks for Comparing and Contrasting Texts

Author: Sandra K. Athans

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1477775439

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One important part of the Common Core Standards for Reading is the ability to read two (or more) separate pieces of writing and then find their similarities and differences. This volume, penned by two teachers, provides that important piece of the Common Core Standards by including several lengthy pieces of writing that students can read and enjoy and then study, with a new eye for comparing and contrasting, using the provided interactive quiz questions and tips from an expert reader.

Tips & Tricks for Evaluating Multimedia Content
Tips & Tricks for Evaluating Multimedia Content

Author: Sandra K. Athans

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 147777565X

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The ability to read and evaluate multimedia content is a large part of the Common Core Standards for Reading. This comprehensive volume helps give students and readers the tools they need to study multimedia content more effectively, leading to better grades and greater success in high school, college, and a career. It includes excerpts of writing and quiz questions that allow readers to study and evaluate their work at a comfortable pace and then check their answers in the supplied bonus information.

Tips & Tricks for Determining Point of View and Purpose
Tips & Tricks for Determining Point of View and Purpose

Author: Sandra K. Athans

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 1477775560

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The Common Core Standards for Reading were developed to help students read and analyze a piece of writing more effectively, giving them the tools they need to succeed on college applications, in college, and in the world of employment. One important factor of the reading standards is the ability to determine point of view and the purpose of a piece of writing. This volume provides guided lessons using excerpts from well-known pieces of writing, Core-focused quiz questions, and advice from an expert reader on how students can get the most out of their reading.

Tips & Tricks for Evaluating an Argument and Its Claims
Tips & Tricks for Evaluating an Argument and Its Claims

Author: Sandra K. Athans

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 1477775609

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The Common Core curriculum is designed to make students better readers, writers, listeners, and critical thinkers. This volume fulfills that mandate by teaching readers how to assess if an argument's reasoning is sound and the evidence presented is valid, relevant, and sufficient. Identifying both the strengths and weaknesses of an argument, along with an author's point of view and possible intentions or agenda, students become better able to separate fact from opinion and reality from spin. They form educated opinions and become better, more persuasive presenters of their own arguments.

Tips and Tricks for Analyzing Text and Citing Evidence
Tips and Tricks for Analyzing Text and Citing Evidence

Author: Sandra K. Athans

Publisher: Rosen Reference

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9781477775424

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The Common Core standards were created to help readers get the most out of every book they read, inside and outside of the classroom. Training students to understand how to read critically is highly important and will help prepare them for college, career

Close Reading: The Basics
Close Reading: The Basics

Author: David Greenham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-07-27

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1351356933

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Close reading is the most essential skill that literature students continue to develop across the full length of their studies. This book is the ideal guide to the practice, providing a methodology that can be used for poetry, novels, drama, and beyond. Using classic works of literature, such as Hamlet and The Great Gatsby as case studies, David Greenham presents a unique, contextual approach to close reading, while addressing key questions such as: What is close reading? What is the importance of the relationships between words? How can close reading enhance reading pleasure? Is there a method of close reading that works for all literary genres? How can close reading unlock complexity? How does the practice of close reading relate to other theoretical and critical approaches? Close Reading: The Basics is formulated to bring together reading pleasure and analytic techniques that will engage the student of literature and enhance their reading experience.

Look Both Ways
Look Both Ways

Author: Jason Reynolds

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1481438298

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"A collection of ten short stories that all take place in the same day about kids walking home from school"--