Reading Drills
By Edward B. Fry, Ph.D.
Reading Levels 4-10, Interest Levels 6-12
Improve test scores and build reading stamina
- Improve critical thinking skills
- Prepare for standardized tests
- Build reading stamina while maintaining
comprehension
Developed by the legendary reading expert Edward Fry, Ph.D., Reading
Drills helps students prepare for standardized tests. Students build
their reading stamina, practicing reading longer passages in a timed setting.
They also improve both their literal and critical-thinking skills and have
additional opportunities for longer personal responses. Like a standardized
test, both fiction and nonfiction selections are presented.
Build critical thinking skills
- Paraphrasing
- Generalizing
- Main idea
- Cause and effect
- Drawing conclusions
- Author’s purpose
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- Predicting
- Categorizing
- Sequence
- Compare and contrast
- Fact and opinion
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Build reading stamina with passages of uniform length
- Introductory level—500 words per passage
- Middle level—750 words per passage
- Advanced level—1,000 words per passage
Build vocabulary in context
- All vocabulary words are introduced within the reading passages.
- Exercises require students to use context to get meaning.
