Reading Comprehension Fundamentals

Help your students improve their reading comprehension with this focused approach! Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides you tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 35 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts, a variety of practice activities, and a unit review.

The comprehensive units guide students to develop a deep understanding of each skill, strategy, and genre introduced with a simple “teach, practice, and assess” approach. Ample reading experiences and varied response formats help to improve students’ overall comprehension and test-taking skills.

Each unit focuses on one reading skill, strategy, or text structure such as:

• Main Idea and Details
• Historical Fiction
• Compare and Contrast
• Making Inferences
• Point of View
• Cause and Effect
• Text Features
• Fact and Opinion
• Vocabulary
• Author’s Purpose

Nonfiction genre studies include: expository nonfiction, persuasive nonfiction, and descriptive nonfiction. Fiction genre studies include: historical fiction, realistic fiction, fairy tales, fables, and poetry.

Use Reading Comprehension Fundamentals as a core standards-aligned reading resource or select the units that align with your curriculum and with your students’ needs.

Better together! Reading Comprehension Fundamentals complements the skill practice presented in Daily Reading Comprehension.