Reading cards to boost fluency and comprehension Help your children to build their fluency and comprehension skills while accessing short texts suitable for Ages 7+ matched to their reading ability. Using these cards and accompanying teacher's guide, you can help children begin to develop the essential skills to become a reader for life. Short Reads 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 19 to 24 | Lexile levels 410L - 600L | Colour Bands: Purple, Gold & Silver/White. 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.