Daily Reading Activities Winter Author:Jck Kabakoff This high-interest, 3 book series features "on this date in history" stories followed by skill-specific comprehension questions with historical, nonfiction short story for each day of the month. — Question formats include multiple choice, fill-in-the-blanks, and writing complete sentence answers. Skills focus on: main idea, facts, locating the an... more »swer, vocabulary, sequence, comparison, cause & effect, fact or opinion, conclusion and inference.
The variety of people, places, and events highlighted are sure to capture the interest of reluctant readers. The stories chosen are not necessarily the most important aspect to what has happened on that date, but were chosen to appeal to a wide variety of range of interests. Students will learn interesting historical facts while improving their reading and comprehension skills.« less