Item Description: Just for Girls Reading Comprehension, Grades3-6 - What girl can resist topics such as horses, best friends, gymnastics, and fashion? This outstanding collection of original short stories, articles, interviews, biogrpahies, advertisements, and more is sure to capture - and hold - the interest of all your young female readers. The subject matter, characters, and graphics have been carefully chosen to relate to girls of this age group. Real-world applications address students' literacy development as they analyze an advertising poster, advice column, and magazine articles. The before, during, and after reading exercises incorporate effective, research-based reading comprehension strategies including: activating prior knowledge, predicting, visualizing, questioning, drawing inferences, summarizing, synthesizing, monitoring and repairing comprehension, and evaluation. Includes a teacher guide, teacher and student rubrics, read aloud observation form, and answer key. Grade: 3-6
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