Levin, S.

Instructional and Consumable Text: Reader’s Journey
                                                             Prentice Hall
 
Informational text with real- world connections, short passages, and longer passages provide a variety of literature for students to apply the skills they are learning.
Used to introduce, practice, and reinforce reading comprehension skills.

Skills covered:

                                Figurative Language (metaphors, similies, personification, idioms, hyperboles)

                                Story Elements (characterization, setting, plot, rising action, climax, conflict, resolution, conclusion)

                                Literary Techniques including, flashback, foreshadowing, making inferences (connections), drawing conclusions, and making predictions

                                Vocabulary Strategies

                                Word Analysis/Decoding Skills