Reading cards to boost fluency and comprehension

Help your children to build their fluency and comprehension skills
while accessing short texts suitable for Ages 8+ 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 fiction cards (six
copies of each) covering: Reading Levels 25 to 28 | Lexile levels
610L - 800L | Colour Bands: Emerald/Lime & Ruby.






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.







Box
Ages
Reading Level
Lexile Range
Colour Band


Decodable Texts: Reception4 to 5phonic phases
2 to 4n/an/a

Decodable Texts: Year 15 to 6phonic phase
5n/an/a
Box 1: Fiction / Box 1: Non-Fiction 5+1
to 8BR to 200LPink/Magenta, Red & Yellow


Box 2: Fiction / Box 2: Non-Fiction 6+9
to 18210L to 400LBlue, Green, Orange & Turquoise


Box 3: Fiction / Box 3: Non-Fiction 7+19
to 24410L to 600LPurple, Gold & Silver/White


Box 4: Fiction / Box 4: Non-Fiction 8+25
to 28610L to 800LEmerald/Lime & Ruby


Box 5: Fiction / Box 5: Non-Fiction 9+29
to 30710L to 1000L+Sapphire


For more information on the Short Reads series please
visit www.scholastic.co.uk/shortreads