Comprehension Skills: Understanding Literary Forms (Middle)

Overview

Main description

Spend more time teaching to each student's needs while the computer takes care of tracking progress

• Improve fiction and nonfiction comprehension
• Customize instruction for each student with computerized placement test
• Move beyond skill-and-drill with integrated writing activities

This innovative program helps students devote effort to only those specific comprehension skills that give them trouble. The computerized testing system diagnoses weaknesses and prescribes proper placement in Comprehension Skills books. While the computer manages the data, you can concentrate on instruction, expanding comprehension skills with a five-part lesson plan proven to succeed. Computerized follow-up testing tracks progress by comparing "before" and "after" results.

Table of contents

All 30 books follow the same logical and concise format:
PART ONE: ExplanationDefines, explains and illustrates the specific skillPART TWO: InstructionInteresting and informative lessonPART THREE: Sample ExerciseDesigned to prepare the student for work in the following sectionPART FOUR: Practice Exercise20 practice exercises with questionsPART FIVE: Writing ActivitiesWriting activities that help students apply the skills they have learned