Six-Way Paragraphs: Middle: 100 Passages for Developing the Six Essential Categories of Comprehension

by Walter Pauk

Book Overview

Six-Way Paragraphs , a three-level series, teaches the basic skills necessary for reading factual material through the use of the following six types of questions: subject matter, main idea, supporting details, conclusions, clarifying devices, and vocabulary in context.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844221198
• ISBN13: 9780844221199
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 11 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 12

Customer Reviews

Excellent for developing reading comprehension

This book was recommended to me by the Lindamood Bell folks who teach reading comprehension etc. The paragraphs and the questions help develop comprehension. Each paragraph has multiple choice questions on main idea, subject, supporting details, clarifying devices, conclusion, vocabulary. These really help the student focus. I also use the paragraphs for the visualizing exercises encouraged by the Lindamood bell system.

Improving Reading Assessment Scores for Comprehension

Our school district purchased one of these books for all of the Language Arts teachers in the middle schools. I used them once a week in my classroom as a fluency reading activity. My reading comprehension scores improved as well as the students ability to summarize the information. We also piloted a handheld program in our school and I reformatted the questions at the end of each selection and the students took the selections "quiz" on QUIZZLER...