Reading Comprehension, Grade 5

Jacket Description/Back: Skill Builders: Reading Comprehension for grade 5 helps children improve their reading comprehension skills through focused practice. With more than 70 pages of activities, Reading Comprehension includes engaging selections to entice reluctant readers and activities designed to target vocabulary, inference, and main idea. The book's colorful, inviting format, easy-to-follow directions, and clear explanations help build children's confidence as readers and make reading more accessible and enjoyable. --The Skill Builders series promotes the development of essential, grade-specific skills. Each book provides focused practice and includes examples and explanations of new skills. Activities follow a natural skill progression and align with state and national standards. By building upon already learned material, each book in the Skill Builders series motivates children while reinforcing the concepts needed for academic successPublisher Marketing: Skill Builders are great tools for keeping children current during the school year or preparing them for the next grade level. A variety of fun and challenging activities provides students with practice and helps introduce basic skills to new learners. This full-color workbook contains appropriate passages and exercises based on national standards for fifth grade to help ensure that children master reading comprehension skills before progressing. Skill Builders combines entertaining and interactive activities with eye-catching graphics to make learning and reviewing fun and effective. The compact 6" x 9" size makes this book perfect for school, at home, or on the go. It features 80 perforated, reproducible pages and an answer key.