Reading for Detail – Ages 5–7

Reading for Detail contains a collection of entertaining fiction and non-fiction texts, with activities designed to help students extract important details from each text. A wide variety of writing forms is used.

Features:

• entertaining fiction and nonfiction texts including plays, newspaper reports, instructions, interviews, experiments and advertisements
• activities designed to help students extract important details from each text
• a wide variety of writing forms is used, including narrative, recount, procedure, report, explanation and exposition
• activities range from word study, retrieval charts and short answer questions to cause and effect, point of view and challenging writing tasks
• teachers notes and answers