Grade 8 Nonfiction Reading Comprehension

The new Common Core State Standards place a great emphasis on nonfiction reading skills, always a problem area for struggling students. The Nonfiction Reading Comprehension workbooks provide educators with the means to engage their students and to practice and reinforce the skills and concepts essential for success on standardized tests and in the classroom. These books offer extensive practice in responding to multiple-choice and constructed-response questions Informal assessment checks ( Checking for Understanding ) have been built into the passages to allow teachers to gauge student progress. Each multiple-choice question is coupled with a brief hint to help struggling students focus on what the question is asking. Also a great home-schooling tool!