Reading Detective® Beginning

by Cheryl Block, Carrie Beckwith, Margaret Hockett

These highly-effective, literature-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students in Grades 3-4 need for exceptional reading comprehension. This 192-page activity book is especially effective at helping students understand challenging critical reading concepts such as making inferences, drawing conclusions, determining cause and effect, using context clues to define vocabulary, and making predictions and generalizations. Reading detective's standards-based Critical Thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. The activities are especially effective at helping students understand more challenging reading concepts such as drawing inferences, determining cause and effect, and using context clues to define vocabulary.

216 pages, Paperback

First published June 28, 1904

Reviews

[J. Boo]

Looks like an interesting test prep/critical reading series.

This is the beginning level, G3-4. Includes excerpts from "The Cricket in Times Square" and some things I have at best vaguely heard of. A1, the next up, is geared more to older (The Jungle Book!) and recent classics (Mr Popper's Penguins, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Owls in the Family, etc.).

There are parallel Math Detective, Science Detective, Writing Detective, etc.