Skill-By-Skill Reading Comprehension

These workbooks were developed to provide teachers with a resource that supports literacy by giving students lots of practice with specific comprehension skills. Struggling readers and students not reading at grade level will enjoy these short, high interest passages. The word count of each passage ranges from 30 to 100 words.

The passages start at a 1.0 reading level and progress to level 3.5 according to the Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale. The reading level for each passage is listed at the bottom of the page. This two workbook set includes a total of 138 comprehension activities.

Comprehension questions include writing a complete answer, fill in the blank, and multiple choice. Each series of questions builds comprehension skills by beginning with the main idea and ending with requiring the student to choose a title for the story.
Skills covered in this series include:
Details
Cause and Effect
Sequence
Conclusion
Vocabulary
Locating the Answer
Comparison
Inference
Fact or Opinion
Main Idea