High-Interest Nonfiction

Description

Each binder features 49 nonfiction stories each based on themes ranging from pyramids and the D-Day Invasion to dolphins and wasps in High-Interest Nonfiction and from tarantulas and vikings to baseball and mummies in More High-Interest Nonfiction.

Following each story are three skill pages featuring literal and interpretive comprehension questions based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, sentence writing practice, and a research/writing activity. Tab dividers organize each topic into useful categories: Animals, Inventions, People, and Places & Events. Binder also includes a skills chart, answer key, and Resource CD.

The whiteboard-ready Resource CD includes the contents of the binder in PDF format, as well as a list of reading levels and word counts, CCSS standards, skill trace tracking spreadsheet, and more. These binders are a wonderful supplement to any reading, history, or science programme! 206 pages in each binder.

Each Binder Includes:

• 49 History & Science Stories
• Skills Chart
• Preview Words
• Questions in Test Format
• Sentence Writing Practice
• Critical Thinking Questions based on Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Research/Writing Activities
• Review Pages in Cloze Format
• Resource CD

Skills Covered Include:

• Cause and Effect
• Classifying Information
• Compare/Contrast
• Connecting
• Drawing Conclusions
• Evaluating Information
• Fact or Opinion
• Finding Facts/Reading for Details
• Main Idea
• Making Inferences
• Predicting Outcomes
• Questioning
• Research
• Sequence
• Summarizing Information
• Vocabulary