Reading Detective® Beginning, Grade 3-4

These highly-effective, literature-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students in Grades 3-4 need for exceptional reading comprehension. This 192-page activity book is especially effective at helping students understand challenging critical reading concepts such as making inferences, drawing conclusions, determining cause and effect, using context clues to define vocabulary, and making predictions and generalizations.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. Concepts and skills covered include:Literary Analysis SkillsDefine vocabulary using context cluesRecognize figurative languageIdentify main idea, supporting details, and themeRecognize literary devicesIdentify story elements: theme, plot, setting, and charactersThe Grades 3—4 (Beginning) level is organized into single-skills units with a concluding mixed-skills unit.Special Shipping Information: This item ships separately from other items in your order. This item cannot ship to a P.O. Box. This item may be subject to additional processing days.