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by Marcia Miller (Author), Martin Lee (Author)
High-interest reproducible informational passages provide text-marking practice that help students read closely, build comprehension skills, and meet higher standards.
High-interest reproducible informational passages provide text-marking practice that help students read closely, build comprehension skills, and meet higher standards.
The higher standards students today are expected to meet call for literacy instruction that focuses on the close reading of complex texts. These informational text passages are organized around high-interest topics connected to the curriculum and to key comprehension skills. The readings are specially formatted to provide practice with text marking, a proven, powerful tool for building comprehension skills, such as finding main idea and details, identifying cause and effect, and sequencing events. For use with Grade 4.
Author Biography
Educational consultants and former teacher from New York, Marcia Miller has written many books for Scholastic including Informational Text assages for Text Marking and Close Reading (series for grades 1-6), 25 Complex Text Passages to Meet the Common Core (series for grades 2-7/8), Morning Jumpstarts: Reading (series for grades 1-6), Differentiated Activities for Teaching Key Comprehension Skills (grades 2-3 and 4-6), and many more.
Educational consultant and former teacher from New York, Martin Lee has written many books for Scholastic including Informational Text assages for Text Marking and Close Reading (series for grades 1-6), 25 Complex Text Passages to Meet the Common Core (series for grades 2-7/8), Morning Jumpstarts: Reading (series for grades 1-6), Differentiated Activities for Teaching Key Comprehension Skills (grades 2-3 and 4-6), and many more.
