Students compare and contrast when they examine two or more things and determine similarities and differences. When students compare and contrast information, it enables them to comprehend more complex text. Use of graphic organizers helps them organize their thoughts and information.

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Good readers relate unfamiliar text to their prior knowledge and personal experiences. They may connect the story with their own lives (text-to-self connection), with something else they may have read (text-to-text connection), or with their knowledge of how the world works (text-to-world connection). Making connections improves comprehension and makes the text more meaningful.

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Following written and oral directions are both skills that must be mastered early on to ensure school success. Procedural text with step-by-step directions as well as how-to books are reading formats that teach children how to carefully follow and closely listen to directions. Following directions is an important reading skill and certainly a critical test-taking skill.

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Students use text and picture clues as well as their prior knowledge (schema) to draw conclusions, make predictions and form interpretations about the story. Inferring allows students to create personal meaning from a story and helps them learn and remember.

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Identifying the main idea and supporting details of a story is one of the most important subskills of comprehension. It helps students summarize, prioritize information, and leads to well organized writing. Determining the main idea of a story will increase children's overall comprehension of what they are reading.

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For readers to make good predictions they must read for details and draw from personal experiences and their background knowledge. Encouraging beginning readers to make predictions engages them in the story and leads to other important strategies such as asking questions, recalling facts, rereading, inferring and drawing conclusions..

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Sequencing is putting events or ideas in the order in which they happened or in a logical order. Being able to understand the order of events is an essential component of retelling a story and aids in reading comprehension. Sequencing also helps students break large projects into smaller, more manageable tasks.

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Examining the elements of a story helps students retell, summarize and comprehend what they have read. It also leads to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the book and helps students learn to write their own stories.

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Examining elements of a story helps students retell, summarize and comprehend what they have read. It also leads to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the book and helps students learn to write their own stories.

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Visualizing is the process of forming a mental picture or image. Readers use both their schema and the text to form images to their minds. Forming mental images aids in comprehension as it helps students better understand and remember the text. It also helps students make predictions and connections.

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For beginning readers, it is essential to master commonly used words so they can recognize those words instantly and read more fluently. Repeated exposure and active engagement with vocabulary improves word learning and ultimately reading comprehension.

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For beginning readers, it is essential to master commonly used words so that they can recognize those words instantly and read more fluently. Repeated exposure and active engagement with vocabulary improves word learning and, ultimately reading comprehension.

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Reading Avenue(tm) is skills-based supplemental reading program. Great for small group, reading intervention, special education, ELL, ESL, summer reinforcement and after school programs.
Primary skills include:

Connections	Main Idea and Details	Predictions
Story Elements I	Visualizing	Vocabulary I
Compare and Contrast	Following Directions	Inference
Story Elements II	Sequencing	Vocabulary II

Secondary skills include: fluency, sequencing, phonics, following directions, recognizing patterns, compare and contrast and writing. Use appropriately leveled Kaeden books with the original stories as a springboard for learning and practicing fundamental reading skills. Activity cards are displayed, used with a pocket chart, put in sequence, read by students or used in hands-on activities to engage students in literacy experiences that provide nonstop learning.

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