Reading Stories for Comprehension Success 7-9: 45 High-Interest Lessons with Reproducible Selections & Questions That Make Kids Think

It s not easy for teachers to hold the attention of today's junior high school students! They are easily distracted and lose interest quickly. Here is a reading curriculum designed to challenge them to think. Written by an experienced reading teacher and workshop leader, it features 45 high-interest lessons on topics like jeans (The Never-Fading Popularity of Levis Jeans) and Buying Your First Car. You'll find 15 story lessons and activities per level, all printed in a big 8-1/4" x 11" spiral-bound format for easy photocopying. Each story includes a brief overview of the story s topic a word list to introduce unfamiliar words recommended books, videos, CDs, records, and cassettes related to the subject crafts, projects, role-playing, games, and other activities that tie into the story reproducible comprehension questions and extension activities such as plays, projects, and other activities to allow students to experience the subject beyond the story.

This comprehension program poses literal, fact-based questions as well as interpretive questions that ask students to draw logical conclusions based on what they've read. It is flexible enough to be used effectively with poor readers, average readers, upper level readers, and special needs students in the classroom.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION.

• Using Reading Stories for Comprehension Success.
• Introductory Activities.
• Extension Activities.
• Literal and Interpretive Questions.
• Who Can Use Reading Stories for Comprehension Success?.
• Classroom Environment.
• Attention Deficit Disorder.
• Teaching Strategies.
• Reading Ability Guidelines.
• Presenting the Story Lesson.
• Pretest.
• Teacher Lesson Plan.
• Lesson Plan Form.
• Course Synopsis Form.
• Student Data Sheet.
• In Conclusion.

READING LEVEL 7.

• Under Each Title:
• About the Story.
• Quotes of the Week.
• Interview Topic.
• Preview Words.
• Word-Origin Study.
• Books to Read.
• Book Club.
• Introductory Activities.
• Extension Activities.
• Story Selection.
• Questions Sheet.
• Titles:
• The Luck of the Chimney Sweep.
• The Dust Bowl.
• Mystery of the Deep.
• Buying Your First Car.
• Life Is Sweet: The Story of Milton Hershey.
• Mina del Padre, The Lost Padre Mine.
• Po Chieng Ma's Coded Pencils.
• Lowe's Intrepid.
• The Never-Fading Popularity of Levi's Jeans.
• A Letter Home.
• Quanah Parker: Comanche Chief.
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
• Walking Stones of Death Valley.
• Can Sand Sing?
• Thomas Flyer Arrives in Paris.

READING LEVEL 8.

• Under Each Title:
• About the Story.
• Quotes of the Week.
• Interview Topic.
• Preview Words.
• Word-Origin Study.
• Books to Read.
• Book Club.
• Introductory Activities.
• Extension Activities.
• Story Selection.
• Questions Sheet.
• Titles:
• Is Anyone Awake Out There?
• Ferris and His Wheel.
• Where Does All the Money Go?
• The Hale House of Harlem.
• Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony.
• Lewis Wickes Hine.
• Mysterious Crash of Airship Akron: 73 Feared Dead.
• The True Pooh.
• Scott Joplin: Ragtime King.
• Betty Ford: A True First Lady.
• Rachel Carson: The Coming of a Silent Spring.
• The Return of Supersonic Flight.
• The Guest Star.
• There Lives a Monster in the Loch.
• "D.B. Cooper-Where Are You?"

READING LEVEL 9.

• Under Each Title:
• About the Story.
• Quotes of the Week.
• Interview Topic.
• Preview Words.
• Word-Origin Study.
• Books to Read.
• Book Club.
• Introductory Activities.
• Extension Activities.
• Story Selection.
• Questions Sheet.
• Titles:
• Omen in the Sky.
• "Cosmic Rocket": Soviets Winning the Space Race.
• Witches and Lies: The Salem Witch Hunt.
• The Glorious Tombs of China.
• Automaton.
• America Mourns.
• Dreaming to Remember.
• Summer Camp Isn't What It Used to Be.
• "Ma" Barker Gunned Down by F.B.I.
• Joseph Cardinal Bernardin.
• What Does "Qwerty" Mean?.
• Adopt-a-Senior.
• 1,200 Dead in Cameroon.
• Predicting the Next Earthquake.
• Charles Kuralt, Journalist of the People.