Comprehension Skills: 40 Short Passages for Close Reading: Grade 1

Comprehension Skills: 40 Short Passages for Close Reading: Grade 1

• Fantastic reading series aligned to support Common Core State Standards
• Designed to develop and strengthen close reading and comprehension skills
• Provides tiered practice for persuasive, informational and narrative text passages
• Questions are text-dependent and identical regardless of reading level
• Repeated practice for mastering identifying main idea and details, using context clues and distinguishing between fact and opinion

<DIV>According to the Common Core State Standards, students should be able to read closely to determine what a text says explicitly, make logical references from it, and cite specific textual evidence to support conclusions drawn from the text.<br>Each of the 40 short, fiction and nonfiction passages in this collection includes companion comprehension questions that target these critical reading skills and give students the repeated practice they need to build mastery in identifying main idea and details, using context clues, distinguishing between fact and opinion, and more. For use with Grade 1.</div>