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by Schyrlet Cameron (Author)
Nonfiction Reading Workbook for kids in 7th grade and 8th grade
Help your seventh and eighth grade students build fluency and proficiency in essential nonfiction reading concepts with Mark Twain's Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Workbook.
Nonfiction Reading Workbooks are a great way for students to strengthen and practice their nonfiction reading comprehension skills and develop strategies for successfully performing standardized assessments.
Why You'll Love This Reading Workbook
- Correlated to Current State and National Standards. This workbook features 8 mini-lessons with nonfiction reading selections covering science, history, geography, economics, and informational text.
- Tracking progress along the way. Assessments in multiple-choice and constructed-response formats are included, covering the most tested reading comprehension skills found on standardized tests to help build students' test-taking confidence.
- Practically sized for every activity. The 64-page workbook is sized at 8.375" x 10.875"--giving your child plenty of space to complete each exercise.
About Mark Twain Books
Designed by leading educators, Mark Twain Publishing Company specializes in providing captivating, supplemental books and resources in a wide range of subjects for middle- and upper-grade homeschool and classroom curriculum success.
The Reading Comprehension Workbook Contains:
- 8 mini-lessons
- Science, history, geography, economics, and informational text reading selections
- Assessments
Back Jacket
Nonfiction Reading Comprehension is designed to help seventh- to eighth-grade students strengthen and practice their nonfiction reading comprehension skills and develop strategies for successfully performing standardized assessments (online or print). The skills section focuses on different nonfiction reading comprehension skills, such as identifying central idea, making inferences, recognizing point of view, or citing evidence. The nonfiction reading selections cover a variety of content areas: science, history, geography, economics, and informational text. Reading selections are followed by an assessment page featuring multiple-choice questions and constructed-response questions similar to the types of assessments found on standardized tests. Questions cover the most tested reading comprehension skills, such as locating information, determining the meaning of words or phrases, identifying the main idea, drawing inferences, and compare/contrast. The paired passages section includes two reading selections on a related topic followed by assessment questions. Skills covered include: - Reading Comprehension - Making Inferences - Textual Evidence - Central Idea - Summary - Word Meaning - Author's Purpose - Textual Structure
