Product Information
Boost literacy and develop close reading skills with finely-levelled short texts suitable for KS1 and KS2 pupils. Each box includes 40 themed reading cards with six copies of each and a teacher's guide. * Develop deep comprehension skills with close reading * Challenging non-fiction topics for children to explore and explain * Motivate the whole class with snappy, fast reads and high-interest topics * Build writing skills with 'Write about Reading' tasks * Ideal for group reading sessions and independent reading Each Teacher's Guide covers 40 group reading sessions including discussion topics and independent writing tasks. The Teacher's Guide contains for each of the texts: overviews for the teacher, focus questions to help prepare the children for the first reading, detailed questions about the text features and content to help the teacher guide pupils back to the text for the second reading, Discussion questions that encourage re-reading, summarising and synthesising and Writing Tasks that require re-reading and higher order thinking skills. All of which help develop close reading skills (Close reading describes the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of text. Research links the close reading of text to significant gains in reading).Product Identifiers
PublisherScholastic Singapore
ISBN-139789814629201
eBay Product ID (ePID)9046560546
Product Key Features
Number of Pages241 Pages
Publication NameShort Reads Fiction Box 1
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
TypeStudy Guide
Subject AreaLanguage Study
AuthorScholastic Inc.
SeriesShort Reads
Dimensions
Item Height300 mm
Item Weight7420 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureSingapore
Title_AuthorScholastic Inc.