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In this 50-page resource, we employ evidence-based practical strategies to help students to understand and to use:
* high frequency homophones for comprehension and spelling;
* similes;
* high frequency academic vocabulary;
* cultural knowledge: parts of a symphony orchestra;
* metaphors;
* the idiom: ‘above board’;
* analogical reasoning tasks: A is to B as C is to D;
* sayings and proverbs: ‘Actions speak louder than words’;
* divergent naming skills for creative thinking; and
* language used in myths and legends: ‘Atlas carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders’.
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In this 49-page resource, we employ evidence-based practical strategies to help students to understand and to use:
* high frequency homophones for comprehension and spelling;
* simile comprehension and production;
* high frequency academic vocabulary: par, semantic, authority, domain, publish;
* cultural knowledge: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse;
* metaphor comprehension;
* the idiom: ‘Bad Egg’;
* analogical reasoning tasks: A is to B as C is to D;
* sayings and proverbs: ‘Beggars can’t be choosers’;
* divergent naming skills for creative thinking; and
* language of myths and legends: Sisyphus and his stone.
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In this 47-page resource, we employ evidence-based practical strategies to help students to understand and to use:
* high frequency homophones for comprehension and spelling;
* simile comprehension and production;
* high frequency academic vocabulary: linear, cognitive, graph, correlation, linguistic;
* cultural knowledge: The three orders of classical architecture;
* metaphor comprehension;
* the idiom: ‘at a crossroads’;
* analogical reasoning tasks: A is to B as C is to D;
* sayings and proverbs: ‘Every cloud has a silver lining’;
* divergent naming skills for creative thinking; and
* language of myths and legends: Pan and panic.
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To help teachers and others working with middle school and high school students to model comprehension strategies, in this 24-page resource, we have prepared 10 short reading passages, each with 9 questions probing higher level reading comprehension skills at different levels of abstraction.
The theme of this volume is World History, including passages about the Earth and the Universe, first life on Earth and the fossil record, agriculture and the domestication of animals, Sumeria, Ancient Egypt, the Library of Alexandria, Ancient Greek city states, and Ancient Greek philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.
