Reading Detective Books, Level A-1 (Grades 5-6)

This level begins with brief lessons that teach specific reading and analysis skills. Then students progress into mixed-skills activities involving literature, original fiction, and nonfiction stories. Students read and analyze stories and then answer multiple-choice and short-response questions, citing sentence-level evidence that supports their answers. These thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and word skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. Stories are one page or less in length. Book includes pre-/post tests, guidelines, and answers.