Main Idea & Details, Sequence, Vocabulary in Context, Compare & Contrast, Conclusions & Inferences, Cause & Effect

Program Focus

Teaches different reading comprehension skills in 6 separate books

• Scaffolded Instruction
• Skills increase in difficulty from sentences to paragraphs to complete passages with test-taking strategies

Lesson Plans & Pacing Calendar

READING SKILL-BY-SKILL:
Common Core Connections

The Common Core Standards state, “students must read widely and deeply from among a broad range of high-quality, increasingly challenging literary and informational texts.”

The ELA/Reading Common Core Standards include 4 clusters: Key Ideas & Details, Craft & Structure, Integration of Knowledge & Ideas, and Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity.

Within each of the clusters there are 10 reading standards that students are required to meet by the end of the school year.

Each of these standards point to specific reading skills. READING SKILL-BY-SKILL focuses on eight of these skills