Reading Detective Beginning Level (Reading Detective)

By Margaret Hockett, Cheryl Block, Carrie Beckwith

Grades 3-4: Beginning Standards-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills children need for exceptional reading comprehension.The activities are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0894557696
• ISBN13: 9780894557699
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co.™
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.4" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Teach students to use specific info to support their thinking

I really like this resource. I teach fourth-graders. This book helps the students learn to find specific information from a passage to support their thinking. It has several sections that focus on different skills: inference, main idea, cause and effect, etc. Another good thing about this book is that it gives the reading level of each passage, ranging from levels 2-4. The passages are also interesting. Some are excerpts from well-known childrens' books.

Fabulous Reading Comprehension Book!!!

This book is one of the best reading comprehension skills book I've found. I used general principles from Jim Treleases's Read Aloud Handbook (read aloud often and discuss everything) to improve my son's general reading comprehension, but I felt that he needed specific instruction on the types of questions he might encounter on standardized tests. While I generally love Evan-Moor products, this book is better than their "Read and Understand" series and far superior to the Spectrum workbooks I've picked up. This book presents reading comprehension as a game - my son becomes a "Reading Detective", looking for the specific clues in the readings that will provide the answer to higher level questions. Kids are required to specify the sentences that provide the clues in addition to providing the answer. I like how this gets my son engaged in meta-cognition, as he tries to figure out how he knows what he knows. Specifically, the book provides instruction and practice in drawing conclusions & making inferences; defining vocabulary using context; identifying story parts; identifying the main idea and supporting details; identifying the theme; identifying cause and effect; and making predictions. I got my copy off of EBAY, but it is worth the full price.