A LESSON-A-DAY FOR EVERY DAY IN SEPTEMBER!

ENGAGING READING COMPREHENSION LESSONS FOR EVERY DAY OF THE MONTH!

For years you've loved our Daily Comprehension Series... Now we've created a whole new series emphasizing captivating events that have happened in the 21st Century!

Featuring celebrities, inventors, sports, scientific discoveries, dramatic events and more… this series is sure to give you an unending supply of relevant and intriguing daily reading lessons. Each high-Interest passage is followed by a full page of skill-specific comprehension activities designed to sharpen essential reading skills. This lesson-a-day series is sure to become a classroom favorite! Ideal for bell work, enrichment, remediation and review.

All captivating events happened in the last 20 years! This is a growing series that will eventually include the entire school year.

INCLUDES STANDARDS-BASED READING & WRITING ACTIVITIES:

Stories feature recent events from the 21st century and are followed by skill-specific comprehension activities to sharpen essential reading skills. Questions are clearly labeled with the standard/skill that it meets.

• LOCATE AN ANSWER
• DRAW CONCLUSIONS
• CAUSE & EFFECT
• FACT OR OPINION
• FIND FACTS
• MAKE INFERENCES
• SEQUENCE EVENTS
• FIND THE MAIN IDEA
• COMPARE & CONTRAST
• USE CONTEXT CLUES TO FIND MEANING

Reading Level: Gr 3 - 4

Interest Level:  Gr 5 - 12

MORE DETAILS:

This 21st Century Daily Comprehension resource is an updated version of our popular Daily Comprehension series. A high-interest, nonfiction story has been chosen for each day of the month. The stories are a combination of historical, scientific, record-breaking, sports, and pop culture events that happened on that particular day. All of the stories are about events that occurred during the 21st Century.

Care was taken to choose topics that appeal to a wide-range of interests. Students will learn some serious and some fun facts while improving their reading skills. A page of skill-based questions follows each story. Comprehension skills include: facts, locating the answer, cause and effect, fact or opinion, sequence, main idea, conclusion, inference, context, and comparison.