Reading Detective Rx: Using Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Reading Comprehension (Grades 6-12+) [Paperback]

Cheryl Block (Author), Christine Broz (Author), Margaret Hockett (Author), Dave White (Author), Susan Giacometti (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up

These fiction and nonfiction activities use higher-order thinking to develop reading comprehension. Students answer multiple-choice and short-response questions then provide sentence-level evidence for their answers. Each reproducible book contains goals, pretests and posttests, 50 activities, a glossary of terms, and answers with evidence and detailed explanations. 200-225 pages.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 11 and up
  
• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Critical Thinking Co. (January 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0894558013
• ISBN-13: 978-0894558016
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #205,293 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good resource, but not as strong as other volumes of Reading Detective, February 11, 2011

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This review is from: Reading Detective Rx: Using Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Reading Comprehension (Grades 6-12+) (Paperback)

The Reading Detective series, in general, is great for teachers looking to build students' critical thinking skills with text analysis. The passages are challenging enough, and the questions engage students in more than just rote memory and spit-back. That said, I highly recommend the A1 and B1 volumes of Reading Detective, mainly because of their robust sections of professional-author-written passages. Browsing through the Rx volume, I find many of the passages are written by the book's authors, not by professional authors of fiction. While this does not eliminate the rigor of the passages or the challenge of the questions, it does minimize the usefulness of THIS PARTICULAR version as an addition to a literature or great books curriculum. I have no doubt that this version, like its other volumes, helps to build student critical thinking; I just would have liked to see more reliance on literature, especially at the 6-12+ grade levels.