Grade: 3-8

Reading Detective uses higher-order thinking and standards-based content to teach students superior reading comprehension skills and help them excel on state tests. The activities develop reading skills by requiring students to answer multiple-choice and short-response questions then provide sentence-level evidence for their answers. Each level begins with brief lessons, introducing reading and analysis skills through single-skill units such as defining vocabulary using context clues, identifying theme, then move to teach specific reading and literary analysis skills and mixed-skills activities.

Teaching Support books contain program goals, pretests and posttests, a glossary of terms, and answers that include evidence and detailed explanations of the evidence. Reading Skills: define vocabulary using context, compare and contrast, distinguish cause/effect and fact/opinion, draw conclusions and follow directions, identify main idea and supporting details, make generalizations/inferences/predictions, read for details and information, sequence facts and steps, use tables, diagrams, illustrations, recognize analogy, predict outcomes. Literacy Analysis Skills: analyze character traits, sequence and identify key events in plot, identify theme and setting, predict resolution, identify author's purpose, recognize figurative language, recognize conflict and point of view.

RDB-1