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Charging Up!™ Reading Comprehension Strategies
Enliven Reading Comprehension Strategies Practice with Activity Cards and a Pen That Talks!
Charging Up! supports best practices identified by top experts in reading comprehension instruction by providing exciting, hands-on practice of key comprehension strategies multiple times with multiple texts. Students want to keep practicing with new cards and books.
Charging Up! activities help students master these 8 research-based reading comprehension strategies—
- Monitoring and Clarifying
- Making Connections
- Visualizing
- Asking and Answering Questions
- Inferring
- Summarizing
- Predicting
- Using Text Structures and Features
- Perfect for centers and independent practice!
- Prepares students for state assessments with multiple-choice questions and answers.
- Provides additional hands-on practice for students with special needs.
- Use for quick and informal assessment.
Hot Dots® Power Pens provide immediate positive auditory and visual feedback when pressed on an answer dot.
Charging Up! Reading Comprehension Strategies Sets
Each Charging Up! Set includes: 72 Strategy Activity Cards (3 sets of 24 cards), 24 leveled books (3 copies each of 4 fiction titles, and 3 copies each of 4 nonfiction titles), 8 Hot Dots® Power Pens (requires 2 AAA batteries, not included), Teacher's Notes with blackline masters, and a storage case.
"Since using Charging Up! to complement my core reading strategy instruction, my students are motivated to apply their strategies to the engaging text provided to see how the magic Hot Dots pen scores their answers on the activity cards. Even my most reluctant learners ask to use it again and again!"
—Karen Jackson, 3rd Grade Teacher, Riverview, FL
—Karen Jackson, 3rd Grade Teacher, Riverview, FL