Standards-Based Comprehension Strategies and Skills Guide: Level 2

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This series ensures that students learn necessary reading skills by offering a variety of texts combined with targeted lessons to practice and reinforce comprehension and fluency. The fiction and nonfiction passages prepare students for the type of reading found on most standardized tests.

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Contents

Summarizing
8
Retelling
12
Main Idea
16
Using Pictures to Predict
20
Using Picture Captions to Predict
24
Using the Title to Predict
28
Using the Cover to Predict
32
Heading to Predict
36
Picture Captions to Comprehend
88
Using Story Topic to Comprehend
92
Story Structure to Comprehend
96
Graphic Features
100
logical Order
104
Sequential Order
108
Compare and Contrast
112
Cause and Effect
116

Story Structure to Predict
40
Using Story Topic to Predict
44
Using Meaning Clues to Predict
48
Prior Knowledge
52
Table of Contents
56
Glossary
60
Index
64
Using the Cover to Comprehend
68
Using Heading to Comprehend
72
Using the Title to Comprehend
76
Using Topic Sentences to Comprehend
80
Using Pictures to Comprehend
84
Proposition and Support Patterns
120
Meaning Clues
124
Mental Images
128
Self Monitoring
132
Selecting Reading Material
136
Purpose for Reading
140
Questioning
144
Making Connections
148
List of Standards
152
Works Cited
158
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