Making Connections Student Book 1, Reading Comprehension Skills & Strategies, Grade 1

In every Making Connections Student Book, users will find a balance of informational and narrative text, content-area selections that support curriculum standards, and Practice the Skill pages for each text selection. Level 1 is designed for Grade 1 literacy level. Reading strategies that students will practice in this workbook include identifying text structure, questioning, learning cooperatively, understanding vocabulary, monitoring comprehension, summarizing, applying multiple strategies, and more.
Making Connections is a direct, systematic, and highly interactive reading comprehension program that is aligned to the Common Core State Standards and teaches students strategies to build their text analysis and comprehension skills. This flexible program employs a scaffolded instructional plan that supports students by modeling, guiding, and then coaching students to reading independence. Fiction and nonfiction texts are tied to content-area topics to prepare students to analyze and interpret diverse materials across content-areas. Full program designed for Grades 1 to 6.