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Best Practices in Reading Comprehension is a series of ELA and ELD Standards-based reading passages and writing workbooks for grades 1-6. The workbooks are designed to develop both narrative and expository reading skills.
The Stoplight Strategy is a research-based Best Practice designed to engage students in “Thinking to Read”. The Stoplight Strategy teaches students to focus on different types of lower and higher level comprehension questions. The questions are aligned to standardized test formats. This teaches students “the language of testing.”
Daily instruction with the Stoplight Strategy Comprehension Passages has proven to significantly increase students’ achievement in comprehension skills across subject areas and on high stakes testing.
Give Your Students the Skills to Comprehend Higher Level Thinking Questions
Reading Comprehension Passages and Writing Activities for Grades 1-6.
Sold in 10, 20 and 30 Packs.
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Stop and Think.
• Stoplight Reading and Writing Comprehension Workbooks teach expository and narrative reading in short comprehensible chunks.
• Stoplight passages accelerate the acquisition of comprehension skills for English learners.
• Stoplight passages teach students to “Think and Read.” Students learn to “think” to comprehend higher level comprehension questions.
• English learners are instructed in the “language of testing.” Passages and questions are formatted like standardized tests
to help students learn
the “language of testing.”
• Stoplight Reading Passages and writing activities are written to grade level ELA and ELD standards.
• Stoplight Passages and writing activities give students practice on grade-level
genres of writing.
A Great Intervention Program for English Learners and
Struggling Readers
Use Book A for daily classroom intervention
Use Book B for after school intervention or homework practice.
• Teach reading comprehension in comprehensible chunks.
• Teach expository reading.
• Teach the language of high stakes testing.
Book A and Book B of Standards-based Stoplight Reading and
Writing Activities
Find answer directly in the paragraph.
Look in more than one place to find the answer.
The answer must be inferred.
