Reading Detective A1 -> ON SALE NOW

Grades: 5th - 6th
Subject: Language Arts
ISBN: 0-89455-767-x
Activities: 50
Pages: 242

Using Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Reading Comprehension

Teaches a depth of analysis that guarantees superior reading comprehension, top grades, and highest test scores!

Description & Features

The standards-based critical thinking activities of Reading Detective® develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills children need for exceptional reading comprehension. The activities are especially effective at helping children understand more challenging reading concepts such as drawing inferences, making conclusions, determining cause-and-effect, and using context clues to define vocabulary.

Students read and analyze short literature passages and stories that include fiction and nonfiction genres. Then they answer multiple-choice and short-response questions, citing sentence evidence to support their answers.

The grades 5–6 (A1) level includes mixed-skills throughout and provides an introductory lesson for each skill.

Assessment Test Preparation

Reading Detective guarantees top performance on assessment tests, including:


• Stanford Achievement Test™ (SAT/9; SAT/10)
• California Achievement Tests (CAT/6)
• Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT)
• Iowa Tests of Basic Skills® (ITBS®)
• Secondary School Admissions Test (SSAT)
• Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP)
• Palmetto Assessment Challenge Test (PACT)
• NYC English Language Arts Test (ELA)
• and many more!

Teaching Support

Includes pretests, post-tests, lesson guidelines, and answers with detailed evidence. Reading and literary analysis skills are based on grade-level standards.