Introducing the Second Edition of the popular Best Practices in Reading Comprehension Series for Grades 1-8 (Levels A-H).

Build core comprehension skills and promote level-by-level growth with the guided instruction and practice in Best Practices in Reading, Options Publishing's best-selling and research-based series. Lessons containing fiction and nonfiction passages draw on the comprehension strategies of Prior Knowledge, Prediction, Making Connections, Drawing Conclusions, Questioning, Visualizing, and Summarizing. An assessment section at the close of each lesson double-checks mastery of skills.

• Distinguish fiction from nonfiction in every lesson with clear instruction and descriptions of genre.
• Strengthen vocabulary using handy on-page definitions for relevant words from each passage.
• Organize facts and details using valuable graphic organizers included in every lesson.
• Check understanding using “Question” sidebars to confirm comprehension as they progress through each passage.
• Make inferences using students’ own experience and knowledge combined with information from the text.
• Identify details that are important to the story and those that support the main idea by making the story more interesting.
  

Grow Great Readers by Focusing on Key Skills & Strategies:

• Make connections
• Ask questions
• Draw conclusions
• Make inferences
• Visualize
• Understand genre
• Make predictions

Expanded Teacher Guides contain ideas on providing instruction for each section before, during, and after reading, plus transparencies for teacher-guided instruction, reproducible activities, answers and a writing rubric. 

Also available: Best Practices in Reading Pretest/Posttest

Add an assessment aspect to the Best Practices program with our pretest/posttest, designed specifically for Best Practices in Reading in Levels A-H (grades 1-8).

• Identify functional levels and establish a baseline for remediation using the pretest
• Use results to pinpoint areas for focus during instruction
• Measure progress and find areas in need of additional instruction using the posttest

Get the Best Practices in Reading Intervention Kit - your complete solution for integrated modeling and guided instruction to build comprehension skills and strategies.