This colorful text features high-interest fiction and non-fiction stories with plenty of photographs and illustrations. Breaking reading down into engaging, manageable portions- - just right for first graders- - short reading passages are followed by spiral-based questions designed to improve reading comprehension. Main Idea, compare/contrast, sequencing, fact/opinion, and comprehension fill-in-the-blank and multiple choice exercises follow. 87 pages, softcover. Grade 1.

This first grade curriculum covers identifying text structure, sequencing, the main idea, and compare/contrast. Strategies employed include identifying text structure, questioning, learning cooperatively, understanding vocabulary, monitoring comprehension, summarizing, applying multiple strategies, and more.

EPS' Making Connections curriculum can be used as either a supplemental or stand-alone reading comprehension curriculum. Each unit focuses on a specific skill that's introduced and developed through explicit instruction, practice, and support, with support gradually removed to encourage independent reading.