Your child can now read the classics and improve his or her reading skills at the same time! This book in the Learn\'Em Good Reading Comprehension series provides your child with the essential reading comprehension and language skills needed for school and in life.
This book may:
1. Improve your child’s reading comprehension skills.
2. Improve your child’s writing skills.
3. Improve your child’s vocabulary.
4. Improve your child’s scores on standardized and entrance tests such as the SAT.
5. Improve your child’s critical thinking skills and general knowledge.
6. Help your child develop a genuine pleasure for reading.
The first section of this book contains reading comprehension strategies such as:
Analyzing Text
Before, During and After Reading
Cause and Effect
Comparing and Contrasting
Context Clues
Determining Importance
Elements of Fiction
Fact and Opinion
Inferring
Making Connections
Main Idea
Metacognition
Questioning
Summarizing/Synthesizing
Sequencing – Time/Order
Visualization
In the second section of this book, you will find questions and reading strategy cues that can be used throughout the entire text. Your child can independently read the story, you can read it out loud to your child, or you can do both.
Finally, the third section of this book delivers the original text of E. Nesbit\'s \"Book of Dragons\". Here, your child can develop a passion for reading while, at the same time, practice important reading comprehension strategies.
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