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Fourth Grade Reading Comprehension Success is filled with exercises and activities that make learning engaging. It uses a systematic, grade-appropriate approach that helps children find, restore, or strengthen their reading comprehension skills. Plus it includes a coupon for $10 off your child’s Skills Assessment® at a Sylvan Learning Center.
Synopsis
Learn from home with kid-friendly, teacher-reviewed activities for 4th grade reading success Good reading skills are essential not only for fourth-grade academic success, but also for lifelong learning. The curriculum-based activities and exercises in this workbook will help your children catch up, keep up, and get ahead. Best of all, they'll have lots of fun doing it Some of the great features you'll find inside are:
READ BETWEEN THE LINES
Do-it-yourself essays on games, camping trips, and more teach kids how to grasp inferences within a story.
COMPARE & CONTRAST
Diagrams show how to figure out what similar subjects such as "comets or asteroids?" have in common and how to tell them apart.
FACT & OPINION
Interesting articles help kids back up opinions with facts from the text on topics such as "Should kids have cell phones?"
QUESTION BUSTERS
Right There and Think-and-Search questions explain how to find the answers to straightforward and not-so-straightforward questions about a story.
STORY PLAN
Fill-in-the-blank sections aid in building story structure, including setting, main characters, problems, and solutions.
Plus
CHECK IT STRIPS
Reinforce concepts and build confidence as kids check their own work.
Give your child's grades and confidence a boost with 4th Grade Reading Comprehension Success.
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Sylvan's proven system inspires kids to learn and has helped children nationwide catch up, keep up, and get ahead in school. Sylvan has been a trusted partner for parents for thirty years, and has based their supplemental education success on programs developed through a focus on the highest educational standards and detailed research. Sylvan's line of educational products equips families with fun, effective, and grade-appropriate learning tools. Our workbooks and learning kits feature activities, stories, and games to reinforce the skills children need to develop and achieve their academic potential. Students will reap the rewards of improved confidence and a newfound love of learning.
Table of Contents
Before You Read1) Get Ready to Read ............1
2) What Do You Know? ............9
P) Power Tools ............17
While You Read
3) Read between the Lines ............21
4) Fact & Opinion ............29
P) Power Tools ............37
5) Every Picture Tells a Story ............41
6) Main Ideas & Details ............49
P) Power Tools ............57
7) Question Busters! ............59
8) More Question Busters! ............67
P) Power Tools ............75
After You Read
9) Compare & Contrast ............79
10) Story Plan ............89
P) Power Tools ............101
- Review ............105