Reading Stories for Comprehension Success Junior High Level; Reading Level 7-9: 45 High-Interest Lessons with Reproducible Selections & Questions That

It s not easy for teachers to hold the attention of today's juniorhigh students They re easily distracted and lose interest quickly.Here s a reading curriculum designed to challenge them to think.Written by an experienced reading teacher and workshop leader, itfeatures 45 high-interest lessons on topics like jeans (TheNever-Fading Popularity of Levi's Jeans) and Buying Your First Car.You ll'find 15 story lessons and activities--each storyincludes a brief overview of the story s topic a word list tointroduce 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 storyreproducible comprehension questions and extension activities suchas plays, projects, and other activities to allow students toexperience the subject beyond the story. This comprehension programposes literal, fact-based questions as well as interpretivequestions that ask students to draw logical conclusions based onwhat they ve read. It s flexible enough to be used effectively withpoor readers, average readers, upper level readers, and specialneeds students in the classroom.