Hi-Lo Nonfiction Passages for Struggling Readers: Grades 4-5: 80 High-Interest/Low-Readability Passages with Comprehension Questions and Mini-Lessons

by Scholastic Teaching Resources and Scholastic

Book Overview

Motivate reluctant readers with this collection of easy-to-read passages that cover a wide range of high-interest topics. Grouped according to the key reading strategies they reinforce, each reproducible passage comes with test-formatted comprehension and vocabulary questions, as well as writing activities. A great supplement to your reading program!

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439694973
• ISBN13: 9780439694971
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 9 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 5

Customer Reviews

Lawrance, K.

Was purchased as a gift, but was shiped to me first and I am pleased with seller and product.

Well worth the investment!

I teach students in grades 6-8 who are struggling in reading. These articles are a perfect one day lesson to teach a reading skill. The book is organized by strategy: main idea, inference, sequencing, using context clues, etc. and then by reading level with increasing difficulty to reinforce the skill and stretch the student's reading skills. I often will use the lowest readability article to introduce the topic and work up in difficulty. It also allows for independent work on same strategy but at differnt levels. The articles are interesting to students and look like anything else their friends may have as classwork or homework. If I could only have access to a handful of teachng resource books, this is one I wouldn't part with. I wish they would come out with a Volume 2! I would also recommend the same book but for grades 2-3 with readability levels beginning at 1st grade to reach your lowest readers.

Great for a self contained special education classroom

I teach a self contained class of of 12 readers with reading levels ranging from kindergarden to 7th grade. This book is an amazing resource for independent work. It provides skill based readings for all but my lowest and highest readers. The layout and images are fantastic and mature and thus, don't make my middle school students feel as if they are doing "baby" work. I recommend this highly and hope they develop a similar book with fiction passages for character analysis and other story element skills.

sgharvey

This book is a good way to peek interest in reading with a variety of topics. My son finds many of these short stories interesting and the questions are logical. It is a good way to work on comprehension and reading skills. I plan on using this book for the summer with my son to help with recoupment.

Great Skills and Activities

As a teacher I'm always looking for supplemented activities, to reinforce language arts skills. This book not only has helped my students with reinforcing comprehension skills but has also given them great activities that not only follow up with what has been read but also personalizes the reading of the passages.