Timed Readings
Reading Levels 4-13, Interest Levels 6-12
Prepare your students for standardized tests in all subject
areas by building reading rate, fluency, and comprehension
- Increase reading stamina
- Build reading rate and fluency
- Develop comprehension and critical-thinking skills
Do you have students who simply do not finish the test in
the time allotted? Do they move their eyes over the page without
remembering what they read? For over 35 years, the Jamestown Timed
Readings collection has helped such students increase
their reading rate, fluency, and comprehension and improve
their standardized test scores.
The 65 books in the series all have
- Uniform 400-word passages for easy timing.
- Nonfiction and fiction selections
like those found on state and national tests.
- Literal and critical comprehension
questions.
- Progress charts for motivation.
- Identical covers within a series
so no one is embarrassed.
Seven different series to meet your students’ needs
- Timed Readings
Plus in Social Studies, Science, or
Mathematics—
passages on content-area topics like those found on standardized
tests
- Timed Readings
Plus in Literature —
excerpts from great literature
- Timed Readings —
passages from science, social studies, the humanities, and
more
- Timed Readings
Plus — nonfiction
passages followed by related fiction