Reading Detective
This series uses highly-effective, literature-based critical thinking activities to develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. The activities are especially effective at helping students understand challenging critical reading concepts such as making inferences, drawing conclusions, determining cause and effect, using context clues to define vocabulary, and making predictions and generalizations. 

Students read and analyze short literature passages and stories that include fiction and nonfiction genres. Then they answer multiple-choice and short-response questions, citing sentence evidence to support their answers. Concepts and skills covered in the series include:

Literary Analysis Skills
     •  Define vocabulary using context clues
     •  Recognize figurative language
     •  Identify main idea, supporting details, and theme
     •  Recognize literary devices
     •  Identify story elements: theme, plot, setting, and characters

Reading Detective® products include the following genres:

Award-Winning Literature Excerpts
     •  See individual products for lists

Stories and Articles
     •  Mystery
     •  Humor
     •  History
     •  Adventure

Nonfiction Topics
     •  Science
     •  Math
     •  Geography
     •  History
     •  Biography
     •  Inventions
     •  Sports

The Grades 3–4 (Beginning) and Grades 6–12+ remedial (Rx) levels are organized into single-skills units with a concluding mixed-skills unit. The Grades 5–6 (A1) and 7–8 (B1) levels include mixed-skills throughout. All levels provide an introductory lesson for each skill. 
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The Critical Thinking Reading Detective Book B1 School Workbook
The Critical Thinking Reading Detective Book B1 School Workbook
$24.99
Teaches a Depth of analysis that guarantees superior reading comprehension, top grades, and top test scores! these higher-order...
THE CRITICAL THINKING CO. READING DETECTIVE BEGINNING GR 3-4
THE CRITICAL THINKING CO. READING DETECTIVE BEGINNING GR 3-4
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These highly-effective, literature-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students in Grades 3-4 need...
THE CRITICAL THINKING CO. READING DETECTIVE BOOK A GR 5-6
THE CRITICAL THINKING CO. READING DETECTIVE BOOK A GR 5-6
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These highly-effective, literature-based thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension....
The Critical Thinking Reading Detective Book B1 School Workbook
The Critical Thinking Reading Detective Book B1 School Workbook
$24.99
THE CRITICAL THINKING CO. READING DETECTIVE BEGINNING GR 3-4
THE CRITICAL THINKING CO. READING DETECTIVE BEGINNING GR 3-4
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THE CRITICAL THINKING CO. READING DETECTIVE BOOK A GR 5-6
THE CRITICAL THINKING CO. READING DETECTIVE BOOK A GR 5-6
$24.99
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