[Improve reading comprehension for your struggling readers and special needs students
Thinking Reader is an innovative, research-validated program that systematically builds reading comprehension skills for students reading below grade level.
10 computer and unlimited site licenses available. Please call 800-527-7638 for pricing.
PRODUCT FEATURES
- Research-based and validated
- The only software program to use the unabridged text of award-winning core literature
- Provides instruction on 7 proven reading comprehension strategies:
- Summarizing
- Clarifying
- Visualizing
- Reflecting
- Questioning
- Predicting
- Feeling
- 5 levels of embedded reading comprehension support for individualized instruction
- Quizzes within the literature test recall, inference, and vocabulary skills
- Tracks specific student performance and general class progress; view, print, or export 6 reports to monitor improvement
- A contextual glossary aids vocabulary development and includes Spanish translations for ELL students
- Human voice narration feature with synchronized highlighting helps build fluency
- Meets the latest guidelines on universal accessibility:
- Adjustable font size
- Keyboard navigation
- text-captioning
- Screen reader compatibility
Offers an extensive library of great classroom reading:
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
- My Brother Sam Is Dead by James and Christopher Collier
- Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
Research-based and validated
Meets State and National Standards
Your students will:
- Apply reading strategies to improve understanding and fluency
- Read and interpret a variety of literary works
- Understand and acquire new vocabulary
- Monitor their own comprehension and make modifications when understanding breaks down
- Answer different types and levels of questions such as open-ended, literal, and interpretative as well as test-like questions such as multiple choice and short answer
- Offer observations, make connections, react, speculate, interpret, and raise questions in response to texts
- Paraphrase and summarize text to recall, inform, or organize ideas
- Describe mental images that text descriptions evoke
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