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This collection of passages for Grade 4 provides students with close reading practice. Animals and plants find ways to survive in their habitat. This is called adapting. Read the excerpts in this book to find out what plants and animals need to survive, as well as different types of adaptation. How do living things adapt to heat and cold? How do predators adapt to help them catch their prey? How do animals adapt to avoid being caught? Learn these secrets of the natural world in the pages of this book. Also included are places to pause and reflect on the text and opportunities to respond to the reading.

Discusses how to recognize symptoms, get proper diagnosis, and guide a child past the obstacles of an attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

This collection of passages for Grade 3 provides students with close reading practice. The animal characters from these Thornton Burgess books have been entertaining young readers for years. This author's love of nature shines through in stories where woodland animals solve problems similar to real-life situations between friends and family. In these stories, meet Jerry Muskrat, Whitefoot the Wood Mouse, and Old Mr. Toad. What adventures will they have, and how will they puzzle their way through these dilemmas? Read to find out. Also included are places to pause and reflect on the text and opportunities to respond to the reading.

Nancy's comprehension and written response strategies give teachers the first-tier Response-to-Intervention (RTI) help they need to get students off to a great start! Your intermediate students may be able to orally explain what they read, but can they write a logical, thorough, and well-elaborated response to text? This professional resource shows you how to teach written response as an expository piece, with a sequence of explicit instruction for both narrative and expository literature, 29 open-ended comprehension questions, models and strategies, and an annotated list of appropriate books. Helps all learners succeed at responding in writing to open-ended comprehension questions. By Nancy Boyles, associate professor in Southern Connecticut State University's graduate reading program. For teachers of grades 3-8. Can be adapted easily for use with high school students.

This collection of passages for Grade 5 provides students with close reading practice. There's nothing like firsthand experience when you want to learn the facts about something. Primary sources in history offer words from people who were there. Read these excerpts to hear what really happened during the Boston Tea Party from a Patriot who was there. Hear from a slave whipped by his heartless master and a pioneer who survived the hardships of the Oregon Trail. Words come alive in these events from America's past. Also included are places to pause and reflect on the text and opportunities to respond to the reading.

This collection of passages for Grade 5 provides students with close reading practice. American Patriots fought eight long years to win independence from Great Britain. Read these excerpts to learn about early Revolutionary War battles. Who won? Who lost? Find out about American political leaders, both men and women. Discover little-known details about a regiment of black soldiers. How did these heroes help American colonies win freedom? The excerpts will answer these questions and more. Also included are places to pause and reflect on the text and opportunities to respond to the reading.

This collection of passages for Grade 4 provides students with close reading practice. Read the excerpts in this book to meet fascinating characters from long ago-a doctor who talks to animals, a horse that talks to other horses, and a whole family of children who experience many of the same growing-up challenges that children face today. What can we learn from these characters that can help us in our own lives? What can we learn about the times in which these characters lived, both the joys and the struggles? Open this book to find out. Also included are places to pause and reflect on the text and opportunities to respond to the reading.

This collection of passages for Grade 4 provides students with close reading practice. Some stories never get old. Their messages are as timely today as they were many moons ago when these fables were first told. What can you learn from the goose with the golden eggs, the fox and the crow, the four oxen and the lion-and other fable favorites? Read the tales in this book and decide for yourself why these lessons are still important to living a good life in the twenty-first century. Also included are places to pause and reflect on the text and opportunities to respond to the reading.

This collection of passages for Grade 4 provides students with close reading practice. As American settlers moved west, life changed for American Indians. They often lost their land and so much more. In the excerpts in this book, learn how the Navajo, the Sioux, and the Iroquois have struggled to keep alive the proud traditions important to their culture, while also becoming part of a modern community. What was the "place of suffering" for the Navajo? Did the U.S. government keep its promises to the Sioux? What kind of homes did the Iroquois build? Find the answers to these questions and more inside this book. Also included are places to pause and reflect on the text and opportunities to respond to the reading.

This collection of passages for Grade 3 provides students with close reading practice. You may have heard of these people from America's past: Pocahontas, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln. But do you know the stories of their lives and times? How did they make a difference in the history of the United States? Read the excerpts in this book to learn the details that made them famous and their important contributions to our nation's early years. Also included are places to pause and reflect on the text and opportunities to respond to the reading.