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Critical Thinking Press CTB1511 Reading Detective Gr 6 And Up, Price/EA
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Manufacturer Part Number: CTB1511
These highly-effective, literature-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. This 192-page activity book is especially effective at helping underperforming students in Grades 6-12+ 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 Skills
• Define vocabulary using context clues
• Recognize figurative language
• Identify main idea, supporting details, and theme
• Recognize literary devices
• Identify story elements: theme, plot, setting, and characters
Reading Detective® Beginning includes the following genres:
Award-Winning Literature Excerpts
• The House on Mango Street
• The Face on the Milk Carton
• Sarny
• River
• Out of the Dust
• Sing Down the Moon
• Call of the Wild
Stories and Articles
• Mystery
• Humor
• History
• Adventure
Nonfiction Topics
• Science
• Math
• Geography
• History
• Biography
• Inventions
• Sports
The Grades 6-12+ remedial (Rx) level is organized into single-skill units with a concluding mixed-skills unit and provides an introductory lesson for each skill. Rx activities are "prescriptive" to help under-performing students in Grades 6-12+ improve their comprehension skills. Reading level is Grades 4–6; story content is Grades 6+. Teaching Support includes pretests, post-tests, lesson guidelines, and answers with detailed evidence. Reading and literary analysis skills are based on grade-level standards.
Length: 11 , Width: 8.5 , Height: 0.75
Weight: 0.7504
These highly-effective, literature-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. This 192-page activity book is especially effective at helping underperforming students in Grades 6-12+ 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 Skills
• Define vocabulary using context clues
• Recognize figurative language
• Identify main idea, supporting details, and theme
• Recognize literary devices
• Identify story elements: theme, plot, setting, and characters
Reading Detective® Beginning includes the following genres:
Award-Winning Literature Excerpts
• The House on Mango Street
• The Face on the Milk Carton
• Sarny
• River
• Out of the Dust
• Sing Down the Moon
• Call of the Wild
Stories and Articles
• Mystery
• Humor
• History
• Adventure
Nonfiction Topics
• Science
• Math
• Geography
• History
• Biography
• Inventions
• Sports
The Grades 6-12+ remedial (Rx) level is organized into single-skill units with a concluding mixed-skills unit and provides an introductory lesson for each skill. Rx activities are "prescriptive" to help under-performing students in Grades 6-12+ improve their comprehension skills. Reading level is Grades 4–6; story content is Grades 6+. Teaching Support includes pretests, post-tests, lesson guidelines, and answers with detailed evidence. Reading and literary analysis skills are based on grade-level standards.
Length: 11 , Width: 8.5 , Height: 0.75
Weight: 0.7504
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Customer Reviews
By Helen Lee
Date: December 16, 2017
it is exactly what I want!
Rating: 
[5 of 5 Stars!]
[5 of 5 Stars!]
By Andromeda Eve
Date: December 11, 2017
Great for struggling readers. I teach a middle school resource class, and this is a great collection of articles and stories. One of the best parts is that every sentence is numbered, and the students are asked to 'prove their answers' by identifying the exact sentence from where they got their information. The articles are high interest. One eighth grade boy with a 4-year reading gap who never comments or cares about literature was so annoyed by one of the articles about gum flying into a student's hair, he proceeded to detail to the class for 5 minutes all the things he hated about the article. For 5 minutes. With detailed examples, constructive criticism, predictions and inference. On and on. See where I'm going with this? Highly recommend.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]
[5 of 5 Stars!]
By HM
Date: December 03, 2017
great book!
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]
[5 of 5 Stars!]
By amanda gilles
Date: August 01, 2017
I use the other books in this series specified on reading and I really like how they are set up so this was a nice expansion. It covers grades 6-12 so it leaves room for growth but it also allows you to use it for older struggling readers.
Rating: 
[4 of 5 Stars!]
[4 of 5 Stars!]
By Beth Cooper
Date: December 09, 2016
I actually ordered this for my husband who is a high school English teacher, grades 9 and 10. He says it is one of the best resource books he's used in the past ten years. It is well aligned with both Common Core and ACT Aspire testing. It has both comprehension questions, and higher level questions to assess student understanding. Along with these questions, students are asked to pull evidence from the story to support their answers, which is a critical skill in both Common Core and ACT Aspire.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]
[5 of 5 Stars!]
By notesofjubilee
Date: December 01, 2016
My daughter, for whom I bought the book, asks to do the exercises on a nearly daily basis. Her reading comprehension is improving and that is what we need. Very satisfied with this purchase.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]
[5 of 5 Stars!]