The Common Core is an important tool that schools use to help students get the most out of everything they read. The ability to summarize text is one that is needed from the earliest reading comprehension lesson up through high school, college, and beyond. Lengthy nonfiction passages are included in this comprehensive volume, along with expert reader advice, quiz questions, and charts that help to guide the reader through using his or her newly discovered...

The Common Core Standards guide students through developing the skills they need to succeed throughout their education, whether it is in regular studies or on tests. This comprehensive volume includes lengthy passages from classic literature and historical documents, allowing readers to read, analyze, and understand the ideas, events, and individuals contained within each work. It includes some valuable hands-on tools, including quiz questions, expert...

Provides students with skills needed to compare and contrast fiction and nonfiction passages. Provides practice in: reading comprehension; analyzing story elements; keeping sequence and details from two sources separate; multiple choice questions; written response questions on individual passage themes; and written response questions that utilize information from two contrasting passages. Includes standards & benchmarks and answer key.

"Middle School students will be fully engaged with a series of stories, challenges, and games that will sharpen vocabulary, test reading comprehension, develop grammar skills, and help them avoid summer slide! Summer Reading helps kids to: Stay motivated to read; Maintain reading skills; Get excited about using the library; Keep discovering and learning all summer long."--