These activities stress standards-based reading comprehension skills such as main idea, reading for detail, cause-effect, prediction, and inference. The Beginning book is for Grades 3-4; Book A1 is for Grades 5-6; Book B1 is for Grades 7-8. Each book has 50 activities: 10 literature, 20 fiction, and 20 nonfiction. I wrote fiction and nonfiction for each book.

Beginning   Fiction Why Dogs Wag Their Tails A Long Distance Adventure A Nutty Modern Folktale A View from Above   Nonfiction Lead on, Sacagawea

A1   Fiction Bad Reputation A Shot at Problem Solving The Bear and the Bees: A Fable It's All Downhill   Nonfiction Blowing Hot and Cold Who Was Benjamin Banneker? Magellan's Voyage Around the World

B1   Fiction Head Chef at 14 The Prime Suspect A Week in Ancient Greece     Nonfiction Galileo's Vision Sports Stats