Description

Ages: 8 and up

Grades: 3rd and up

RL: 3.0-5.9

Boost reading comprehension with high-interest nonfiction!

Engage your students with 49 fascinating stories covering history and science topics—from the pyramids and the D-Day Invasion to dolphins and wasps. Each passage is followed by three skill pages featuring literal and interpretive comprehension questions (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy), sentence writing practice, and a research/writing activity.

Organized into four easy-to-use categories—Animals, Inventions, People, and Places & Events—this binder also includes a skills chart, answer key, and Resource CD for flexible teaching.

The whiteboard-ready Resource CD provides the full binder in PDF format, plus reading levels, word counts, CCSS standards, and a skill-tracking spreadsheet—making it the perfect supplement to any reading, history, or science program.

Binder Includes

• 49 nonfiction history & science stories

• Skills chart & preview words

• Comprehension questions in test format

• Sentence writing practice

• Critical thinking questions (Bloom’s Taxonomy)

• Research & writing activities

• Cloze review pages

• Resource CD

Skills Covered

• Cause & Effect

• Classifying Information

• Compare & Contrast

• Connecting Ideas

• Drawing Conclusions

• Evaluating Information

• Fact vs. Opinion

• Finding Facts & Reading for Details

• Main Idea

• Making Inferences

• Predicting Outcomes

• Questioning

• Research

• Sequencing

• Summarizing

• Vocabulary

Includes

✔️ 206 reproducible pages
✔️ Includes Resource CD (PDF format)
✔️ Ideal for grades 3–6 (reading, history, or science programs)