Short Reads Non-fiction Box 2 Ages 6+ (Level 210-400)

Reading cards to boost fluency and comprehension.

Help your children to build their fluency and comprehension skills while accessing short texts suitable for Ages 6+ matched to their reading ability. Using these cards and the accompanying teacher's guide, you can help children begin to develop the essential skills to become a reader for life.

Short Reads Non-fiction Box 2 Ages 6+ (Level 210-400) provides children with texts matched to their reading ability to dive deeper into. They read, re-read, discuss and respond in writing about topics, helping them to develop wider comprehension skills using close reading.

This box contains a teacher's guide and 40 non-fiction cards (six copies of each) covering: Reading Levels 9 to 18 | Lexile levels 210L - 400L | Colour Bands: Blue, Green, Orange & Turquoise.

Challenging high-interest topics for children to explore and explain:

• Motivate the whole class with snappy, fast reads and high-interest topics.
• Develop comprehension skills with close reading.
• Build writing skills with 'Write about Reading' tasks.
• Ideal for group reading sessions.

The Teacher's Guide covers 40 group reading sessions including discussion topics and independent writing tasks. This includes:

• A teacher's reference panel about the card.
• Focus questions to help prepare the children for the first reading.
• Detailed questions about the text features.
• Content to help the teacher guide pupils back to the text for the second reading.
• Discussion questions that encourage re-reading, summarising and synthesising.
• Writing tasks that require re-reading and higher order thinking skills.

All of which help develop close reading skills.

What is close reading?

Close Reading (sometimes called Repeated Reading) describes the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of text. Research links the close reading of text to significant gains in reading. The careful study of a short text passage helps build a deep, critical understanding of the text. Children learn to comprehend text, analyse, synthesise and critically examine information.

Series Information

Short Reads are deliberately short to focus children on purposeful reading, re-reading and responding. Children learn about the topic through rich vocabulary development and deep comprehension. Each box contains six copies of 40 different reading cards and a teacher's guide.

Non-fiction text types covered: Description; Explanation; Procedure; Report; Discussion. Fiction genres covered: Humour; Poetry; Fantasy; Mystery; Greek Myths.