Grade(s): 3-6
Pages: 90

Help children actively engage in the reading process by focusing on those skills that lead to better comprehension, higher test scores, and a greater love of reading. The engaging chapter-by-chapter activities focus on true comprehension - not just word searches that measure surface comprehension.

Extensive studies show that people who use analysis skills as they perform any task will transfer the knowledge, skills, and abilities they gain to other parts of their lives at a much higher rate, leading to success in both school and in life. The standards-based reproducible activities can be used as homework, enrichment worksheets, class discussion topics, assessments,and extension activities.

Table of Contents/Skills:

About the Authors
Teaching Suggestions

Grandma
Exercise A: Vocabulary Development/Parts of Speech
Exercise B: Context Clues
Exercise C: Characters
Exercise D: Setting
Exercise E: Comprehension

• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Details
• Inference
• Main Idea

The Marvelous Plan
Exercise A: Vocabulary Development/Parts of Speech
Exercise B: Synonyms
Exercise C: Comprehension

• Cause and Effect
• Details
• Drawing Conclusions
• Inference
• Summary

George Begins to Make the Medicine
Exercise A: Vocabulary Development
Exercise B: Context/Parts of Speech
Exercise C: Events/Details
Exercise D: Comprehension

• Cause and Effect
• Drawing Conclusions
• Details
• Inference
• Main Idea

Animal Pills
Exercise A: Vocabulary Development/Parts of Speech
Exercise B: Word Scramble/Context
Exercise C: Comprehension

• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Inference
• Prediction
• Sequence

The Cook-Up
Exercise A: Vocabulary Development/Parts of Speech
Exercise B: Synonyms
Exercise C: Comprehension

• Compare and Contrast
• Details
• Inference
• Predictions
• Sequence

Brown Paint
Exercise A: Vocabulary Development/Parts of Speech
Exercise B: Synonyms
Exercise C: Comprehension

• Details
• Predictions
• Problems and Solution
• Sequence
• Main Idea and Supporting Details

Grandma Gets the Medicine
Exercise A: Vocabulary Development
Exercise B: Context/Parts of Speech
Exercise C: Summary
Exercise D: Events/Details
Exercise E: Comprehension

• Cause and Effect
• Drawing Conclusions
• Inference
• Main Idea and Supporting Details
• Predictions

The Brown Hen
Exercise A: Vocabulary Development/Parts of Speech
Exercise B: Word Scramble
Exercise C: Sequence
Exercise D: Comprehension

• Details
• Compare and Contrast

The Pig, the Bullocks, the Sheep, the Pony, and the Nanny Goat
Exercise A: Vocabulary Development/Parts of Speech
Exercise B: Context Clues
Exercise C: Events/Details
Exercise D: Comprehension

• Cause and Effect
• Drawing Conclusions
• Inference
• Main Idea and Supporting Details
• Predictions

A Crane for Grandma
Exercise A: Vocabulary Development/Parts of Speech
Exercise B: Word Scramble
Exercise C: Comprehension

• Details
• Drawing Conclusions
• Predictions
• Sequence

Mr. Kranky?s Great Idea
Exercise A: Vocabulary Development/Parts of Speech
Exercise B: Which Word
Exercise C: Comprehension

• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Details
• Drawing Conclusions
• Inference

Marvelous Medicine Number Two
Exercise A: Vocabulary Development/Parts of Speech
Exercise B: Context
Exercise C: Summary
Exercise D: Comprehension

• Cause and Effect
• Details
• Drawing Conclusions
• Problem and Solution
• Sequence

Marvelous Medicine Number Three
and Marvelous Medicine Number Four
Exercise A: Vocabulary Development/Parts of Speech
Exercise B: True or False
Exercise C: Comprehension

• Cause and Effect
• Details
• Drawing Conclusions
• Inference
• Predictions
• Sequence

Goodbye Grandma
Exercise A: Vocabulary Development
Exercise B: Context/Parts of Speech
Exercise C: Comprehension

• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Drawing Conclusions
• Main Idea and Supporting Details
• Sequence

Creative Writing
Extension Activity 1
Extension Activity 2
Answers
Word Roots Beginning Sample