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Using Higher-order Thinking to Improve Reading Comprehension (Reading Detective Rx)
Help your students become better readers and critical thinkers with this collection of high-interest, low-readability stories. Stories are comprised of non-fiction articles on a variety of subjects as well as fiction excerpts and short stories; short-answer or multiplechoice questions follow, helping students use the featured skill. Students will learn to go beyond simple recalls of material, but instead analyze it and support their answers with specific information from the text. Pre and post tests are also included for general assessment of student skills. 211 pages, answer keys included in the back.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9780894558016
- Print Status
- In Print
- Lessons
- 45
- Suggested Grades
- 6th - 12th
- Publisher
- Critical Thinking Books and Software
- Copyright
- 2002
Lessons
- 1 Fiction Pretest
- 2 Nonfiction Pretest
- 3 Pass the Salt
- 4 Day of Infamy
- 5 A Breed Apart
- 6 The Rosetta Stone
- 7 "Bums in the Attic"
- 8 Secrets Revealed
- 9 Speed Skating
- 10 The Coin
- 11 Clumsy Clem
- 12 From Frozen Food, Fast
- 13 Music for the Ages
- 14 He's Got Mail
- 15 Boat People
- 16 Cross Country
- 17 A Run Through the Park
- 18 The Face on the Milk Carton
- 19 The Pink Umbrella
- 20 Out in the Cold
- 21 Sarny
- 22 Dolphin Dreams
- 23 The Trick
- 24 Corporal Vinny
- 25 Doctor Robot
- 26 Sylvia Earle: Hero for the Ocean
- 27 River
- 28 Salt and Dozen Don
- 29 That's Gratitude for You
- 30 Flash Flood
- 31 Animal Eyes
- 32 Rubber Roads
- 33 "The Path of Our Sorrow"
- 34 Mind's Eye
- 35 It's in the Dough
- 36 Bubblemania
- 37 Foods as Medicine
- 38 Sing Down the Moon
- 39 Swim for Your Life
- 40 The Last Will
- 41 The Working Child
- 42 Owls in the Family
- 43 Tiger Woods: Hear Him Roar!
- 44 Fiction Posttest
- 45 Nonfiction Posttest
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