Reading Detective Rx – Using Higher-Order Thinking To Improve Reading Comprehension

The critical thinking activities in Reading Detective help develop the analysis, synthesis and vocabulary skills children need for exceptional reading comprehension. 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. Rx version is designed to help underperforming students in grades 6-12+ improve their comprehension skills. Reading level is grades 4-6; story content is for grades 6+. Includes pretests, post-tests, lesson guidelines, and answers with detailed evidence. Paperback by Cheryl Block, Christine Broz, Margaret Hockett and David White. 44 activities, 246 pages, measures 8-1/2 x 11″.