Reading Detective Developing Thinking Skills for Reading Comprehension A1 - 1501 / RL 4+ / 4-6 Author:Cheryl Block, Carrie Beckwith, Margaret Hockett, David White The goal of this program is to develop students' skills in reading comprehension, particularly those skills that require critical thinking, such as inference, relevance, identifying evidence, and generalization. ~ ~ Students will read excerpts from award-winning literature, original fiction, and nonfiction topics, answer questions about what the... more »y read, and provide evidence to support their choices. ~ ~ Grades 4-6 ability; 50 activities per book.« less