Organized by specific reading skills, this book is designed to enhance students' reading comprehension. The focused, meaningful practice and entertaining topics motivate students to learn.

Each book in the Word Power series provides 22 activities which introduce more than 60 challenging new words chosen from popular literature at the designated level. This mode of selection expands the conventional basal vocabularies and ensures the usefulness of words learned. Three two-page reviews reinforce learning. Activity pages introduce new words in context. Reinforcement is provided in student activities matching words with their meanings, aphabetizing words, matching words with their antonyms, and completing puzzles. All lessons are teacher-created. The teaching guide includes a list of source books for each level.

Organized by specific reading skills, this book is designed to enhance students' reading comprehension. The focused, meaningful practice and entertaining topics motivate students to learn.

Organized by specific reading skills, this book is designed to enhance students' reading comprehension. The focused, meaningful practice and entertaining topics motivate students to learn.

Use practical and creative activities to help students develop this essential skill. Each book features over 20 standards-based reading comprehension strategies. Strategies include: making predictions, identifying story elements, sequencing, drawing conclusions, identifying the main idea, using context clues.

Offers exercises for brainstorming, main ideas and details, using descriptive words, sequencing, recognizing cause and effect and using correct punctuation.

Find concrete ways to support unwilling, unengaged, or struggling readers! This professional resource includes easy-to-implement classroom strategies and activities to help teachers reach reluctant readers. Have your students mastered the art of avoiding reading? Written by English teacher and literacy expert Heidi Crumrine, 50 Strategies for Reluctant Readers gives educators ideas for how to provide a variety of reading opportunities for students who don't like to read. These quick, accessible strategies are based on the science of reading and are perfect for getting readers engaged and excited. From building literacy to fostering a love of reading, this book offers K–12 teachers the support they need to help reluctant readers thrive.