The Wild Side • High-interest nonfiction with comprehension instruction based on the latest reading research • Comprehension questions, including author's purpose, personal response, and self-assessment, based on latest reading research • Comparison across texts help students analyze • More Information       Reading Levels: 4.0 - 6.0 Interest Levels: 6 -12

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The Wild Side		ISBN Number	Reading Level	Interest Level
Angry Animals		0-80-929516-4	4-6	4-12
Beyond Belief		0-80-929833-3	4-6	4-12
Bizarre Endings		0-80-929511-3	4-6	4-12
Close Calls		0-80-929828-7	4-6	4-12
Crime and Punishment		0-80-929518-0	4-6	4-12
Extreme Sports		0-80-929517-2	4-6	4-12
In the Line of Duty		0-80-929829-5	4-6	4-12
Total Panic		0-80-929512-1	4-6	4-12
Weird Science		0-80-929519-9	4-6	4-12
Teacher Notes and Answer Key		0-80-929510-5
Super Value Set (10 copies of each title and 1 Teacher Notes)		0-07-831232-9
Special Value Set (Set of 9 books - one of each title)		0-80-929320-X
Special Value Set (10 copies of one title and 1 Teacher Notes)
	Angry Animals	0-07-872934-3
	Beyond Belief	0-07-872935-1
	Bizarre Endings	0-07-872936-X
	Close Calls	0-07-872937-8
	Crime and Punishment	0-07-872938-6
	Extreme Sports	0-07-872939-4
	In the Line of Duty	0-07-872940-8
	Total Panic	0-07-872941-6
	Weird Science	0-07-872942-4

The Wild Side features amazing, strange, and unbelievable nonfiction selections that students will want to read. Each book includes new exercises and activities that improve reading comprehension and critical reading skills.

New Critical Thinking Exercises.  Help students focus on the author's approach and purpose, recognize and generate summaries and paraphrases, and identify relationships between ideas.

Reading comprehension exercises.  Help students recall what they've read, check, understanding of the stated and implied main ideas, and add words to their working vocabulary.

Personal Response and Self-Assessment.  Relates the articles to the students' personal experiences and helps evaluate their understanding of the information.

Three progressive reading levels per book.  Students build reading skills as stories increase in difficulty.

BOOK TITLES:

Beyond Belief The Real World--with a Twist
Amazing discoveries, unexplained events, and startling situations.

Crime and Punishment A Roundup of Memorable Crimes and Criminals
Lizzie Borden, the Brink's Robbery, Typhoid Mary, Bonnie and Clyde, and other stories of misconduct.

Close Calls Survival Through Force of Will
Hanging from a cliff, lost in the wilderness, buried in rubble, wandering in the desert, shot, shipwrecked, and other extreme struggles with fate.

Extreme Sports Daredevil Athletic Action
Snowboarding, bungee jumping, white-water rafting, hang gliding, mountain climbing, and other hair-raising adventures.

In the Line of Duty Selfless Acts of Heroism
Smokejumpers, firefighters, a U.S. marshal, nurses, a school bus driver, and others risking their lives in the service of others.

Total Panic Pulse-Pounding Headlines
The fall of Saigon, a nerve gas attack in Tokyo, the World Trade Center bombing, a ravaging flood in Mozambique, shipwrecks, riots, and more.

Angry Animals The Ferocious Face of Nature
Charging grizzlies, attacking whales, killer bees, rampaging elephants, human-eating tigers, squirming giant squid, and more frightening encounters.

Weird Science Science That Mystifies and Amazes
Crime-solving psychics, the secret life of twins, the icy grip of cryonic death, time travel, floating balls of lightning, and more scientific phenomena.

Bizarre Endings Strange Happenings
The weird world of Howard Hughes, the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, the tragedy of the Donner party, the curse of the Hope Diamond, and other intriguing stories.

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