The importance of reading comprehension can not be emphasized enough. It is an extremely vital skill needed to develop confident readers. Filled with interesting non-fictional topics in the subjects of geography, history, and science, this series is designed to strengthen your student's comprehension skills by developing seven vital reading skills: using facts to answer who, what, when, where, why, and how many questions; placing events in sequential order; identifying similarities and differences and cause and effect relationships; using context clues to figure out the meaning of a word; making inferences to make decisions and draw logical conclusions; integrating knowledge by drawing upon visualization skills and prior knowledge; and stating an opinion and providing support for it. The passages are presented in order of increasing difficulty, and the content area standard and benchmark (now correlated to Common Core standards) covered within each passage are boxed off and noted at the beginning of each passage. A series of multiple choice questions and one short answer question assesses understanding of each and every passage. ~ Enh
