Customer Reviews

Daybook of Critical Reading and Writing (Grade 8)

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I bought this book to help my son improve his reading comprehension and writing skills over the summer. The lessons are a bit challenging for him, but we sit down and discuss them together and when he gets stuck, we work our way out of the rut together. It teaches him about notetaking and making connections and reading deep for added insight. It is the best book I've seen for teaching kids reading comprehension!

This is an excellent resource for teachers. Day Book gives students very good examples of how to write responses to passages read in the book. Day Book has interesting topics to read that will interest students.

The reason I gave this book two stars, is because we use this book in our class all of the time. Most of the stories and poems in here are hard to understand and complicated.

I know that you are supposed to use your mind, and there is no right or wrong answer, but you can not use your mind if you dont know what is going on. I keep getting zero's on my daybook assignments, because all I can put in the margins or the pages to write what you think, is that I can't write anything because it was hard to understand, so I get zero's for not understanding, and that to me isnt fair! So, I think that if to this book you tell your opinion, I think that if your opinion is that you didnt understand it, than that should still be counted as "no right or wrong answer".

But besides that, it is a good idea.