Remedia Publications was founded by two experienced special education teachers who recognized a great need for special materials that would help their struggling learners develop and improve basic skills. They believed that teachers know best when it comes to creating learning material, so they assembled a team of other experienced teachers and began developing unique learning products suitable for students in both special ed. classes and regular ed. classes.
Remedia Publications was founded by two experienced special education teachers who recognized a great need for special materials that would help their struggling learners develop and improve basic skills. They believed that teachers know best when it comes to creating learning material, so they assembled a team of other experienced teachers and began developing unique learning products suitable for students in both special ed. classes and regular ed. classes.
Reading | Specific Comprehension Skills | Main Idea
Improve Reading Comprehension Skill by Skill!
Do you have students who need extra practice with comprehension skills? Then, this product was designed especially for you. Short, high-interest, one-paragraph reading passages were specifically written to aid students in “Finding the Main Ideas.”
SPECIFIC SKILL: MAIN IDEA
What is the story mainly about? What point is the author trying to make? Being able to tell the main idea of a story means that you have put together the details and come up with the general idea the author is trying to get across. It is one of the most basic and essential comprehension skills.
READING PASSAGES
Each card has four, short, one-paragraph reading passages. The reading passages are written in such a way that students should be able to get the main idea of the passage.
The reading passages are arranged in ascending order. The progression allows students to begin at a lower reading level (Card 1a) and move on to higher levels (Card 8b) as their skills improve.
Reading levels begin at 3.0 and progress to 4.5 according the Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale.
QUESTIONS
After each paragraph, there is a multiple-choice question that asks the students to complete this statement: This story mainly tells… To choose the correct answer, students will need to use details in the passage to choose which answer best describes the main idea.
Pre-printed answer strips can be filled out and used for students to mark down their answers.
DETAILS
Contents Include:
16 Story Cards
Printable Answer Strip Template
Teacher’s Guide
Answer Key
Comprehension Skills Progress Chart
Grade Level: 1-6
Boost Reading Skills With an Array of Fun Activities
Hold readers’ interest with this excellent series! This leveled set contains a variety of topics written in different formats. Activities address most aspects of reading comprehension taught in grades 1-6. Reading selections were tested against the Fry Readability Scale.
Skills Covered Include:
reading for details
finding the main idea
context clues
sequencing
and more!
Bundle & Save! All of the materials in this bundle are sold separately on Remedia Digital. Follow the links below to read detailed descriptions for each title. The 6 Titles in this Bundle Include:
Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Grade 6
Reading | Specific Comprehension Skills |Context
Improve Reading Comprehension Skill by Skill!
Do you have students who need extra practice with comprehension skills? Then, this product was designed especially for you. Short, high-interest, one-paragraph reading passages were specifically written to aid students in using “Context” to understand the meaning of unfamiliar words within a story.
SPECIFIC SKILL: CONTEXT
Being able to use context in a reading passage to understand unfamiliar words is an essential skill for building vocabulary and increasing reading fluency. Using context means understanding the connection between the words, phrases, and sentences in a reading passage. The words surrounding an unfamiliar word help determine its meaning.
READING PASSAGES
Each card has four short, one paragraph reading passages. Two of the sentences have missing words. Three words are offered as possibilities. Students must pay attention to all of the words in the paragraph to determine which word best completes each sentence.
The reading passages are arranged in ascending order. The progression allows students to begin at a lower reading level (Card 1a) and move on to higher levels (Card 8b) as their skills improve.
Reading levels begin at 3.0 and progress to 4.5 according the Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale.
QUESTIONS
Each paragraph has two sentences with missing words. Students are offered three choices to pick the word that best completes the sentence. They must use context to help chose the correct answer.
Pre-printed answer strips can be filled out and used for students to mark down their answers.
DETAILS
Contents Include:
16 Story Cards
Printable Answer Strip Template
Teacher’s Guide
Answer Key
Comprehension Skills Progress Chart
Reading | Specific Comprehension Skills |Finding Facts
Improve Reading Comprehension Skill by Skill!
Do you have students who need extra practice with comprehension skills? Then, this product was designed especially for you. Short, high-interest reading passages were specifically written to aid students in easily “Finding the Facts.”
SPECIFIC SKILL: FACTS
Being able to find relevant facts in a story is a basic skill necessary for comprehension. Facts are bits of information that focus on the details of a story. Facts can be found by asking who, what, why, where, when, which, and how type questions.
READING PASSAGES
Topics for these 16 short reading passages were carefully chosen to capture the interest of a wide variety of students. Titles include:” “Getting a Dog,” “Riding Roller Coasters at Six Flags,” “Making Tamales,” “Adventure in the Mountains,” and much more.
The reading passages are arranged in ascending order. The progression allows students to begin at a lower reading level (Card 1a) and move on to higher levels (Card 8b) as their skills improve.
Reading levels begin at 3.0 and progress to 4.5 according the Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale.
QUESTIONS
Eight questions per story, in a multiple-choice format, give three answer options for the students to chose from. Students may go back into the text to find the answers. Pre-printed answer strips can be filled out and used for students to mark down their answers.
DETAILS
Contents Include:
16 Story Cards
Printable Answer Strip Template
Teacher’s Guide
Answer Key
Comprehension Skills Progress Chart
Single Skill Practice for Reading Success! Provide your students with solid reading comprehension practice for finding the main idea.
This unit features 48, short reading passages sorted by difficulty–from low to high reading level. This progression allows students to begin at a lower reading level and then move on to higher levels as their skills improve. Reading levels begin at 2.0 and progress to 3.5 according to Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale.
A single, multiple choice question follows each reading passage and guides students to find the main idea about what they’ve read.
Perfect for skill reinforcement and assessment! Ideal for individual students, large groups, and as a center activity.
Reading Level 2.0-3.5 | Interest Level 2-12
Each segment has 26 pages total.
16 - Skill Reading Cards
Teacher’s Guide Pages
Answer Sheets
Answer Key
Comprehension Skills Progress Report Sheet
Reading | Specific Comprehension Skills |Sequence
Improve Reading Comprehension Skill by Skill!
Do you have students who need extra practice with comprehension skills? Then, this product was designed especially for you. Short, high-interest reading passages were specifically written to aid students in finding the “Sequence” of events.
SPECIFIC SKILL: SEQUENCE
Sequence refers to the order in which events happen in a story or the steps involved in making or doing something. Word clues to look for that help identify the sequence in as story are: before, after, next, first, later, during, last, then, and finally.
READING PASSAGES
Topics for these 16 short reading passages were carefully chosen to capture the interest of a wide variety of students. Titles include:” “The Lost Paradise,” “The Great Motocross Race,” “Diving for Treasure,” “A Tornado on the Farm,” and much more
The reading passages are arranged in ascending order. The progression allows students to begin at a lower reading level (Card 1a) and move on to higher levels (Card 8b) as their skills improve.
Reading levels begin at 3.0 and progress to 4.5 according the Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale.
QUESTIONS
The first question after each story asks students to put three events from the story in the order they happen. The following three questions are multiple-choice and require students to understand the steps or order in which events occurred. Using sequence word clues will help students find the answers.
Pre-printed answer strips can be filled out and used for students to mark down their answers.
DETAILS
Contents Include:
16 Story Cards
16 Answer Strips
Teacher’s Guide
Answer Key
Comprehension Skills Progress Chart
Reading | Specific Comprehension Skills | Drawing Conclusions
Improve Reading Comprehension Skill by Skill!
Do you have students who need extra practice with comprehension skills? Then, this product was designed especially for you. Short, high-interest, one-paragraph reading passages were specifically written to aid students in “Drawing a Conclusion.”
SPECIFIC SKILL: CONCLUSION
Drawing a conclusion means using information in the story to help make a decision about something. A logical conclusion must be supported by putting together details that are stated in the story. This can be a challenging skill to master.
READING PASSAGES
Each card has four, short, one-paragraph reading passages. The reading passages are written in such a way that students should be able to draw a logical conclusion.
The reading passages are arranged in ascending order. The progression allows students to begin at a lower reading level (Card 1a) and move on to higher levels (Card 8b) as their skills improve.
Reading levels begin at 3.0 and progress to 4.5 according the Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale.
QUESTIONS
After each paragraph, there is a multiple-choice question that asks students to complete a statement: From this story, you can tell… To choose the correct answer, students will need to determine which information in the story can support their answer.
Pre-printed answer strips can be filled out and used for students to mark down their answers.
DETAILS
Contents Include:
16 Story Cards
Printable Answer Strip Template
Teacher’s Guide
Answer Key
Comprehension Skills Progress Chart
Reading | Specific Comprehension Skills | Making an Inference
Improve Reading Comprehension Skill by Skill!
Do you have students who need extra practice with comprehension skills? Then, this product was designed especially for you. Short, high-interest, one-paragraph reading passages were specifically written to aid students in “Making an Inference.”
SPECIFIC SKILL: INFERENCE
Making an inference is one of the more challenging comprehension skills. Students must add their own knowledge and experience to what has been read. It’s a higher-level, critical-thinking skill. Making an inference is basically making an educated guess based on what you know and what you’ve read.
READING PASSAGES
Each card has four, short, one-paragraph reading passages. The reading passages are written in such a way that students should be able to make an educated guess about what the text infers.
The reading passages are arranged in ascending order. The progression allows students to begin at a lower reading level (Card 1a) and move on to higher levels (Card 8b) as their skills improve.
Reading levels begin at 3.0 and progress to 4.5 according the Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale.
QUESTIONS
After each paragraph, there is a multiple-choice question that asks: Which of these statements is probably true? To choose the correct answer, students will need to decide which answer makes the most sense to them based on the details given in the paragraph.
Pre-printed answer strips can be filled out and used for students to mark down their answers.
DETAILS
Contents Include:
16 Story Cards
Printable Answer Strip Template
Teacher’s Guide
Answer Key
Comprehension Skills Progress Chart
Single Skill Practice for Reading Success! Provide your students with solid reading comprehension practice.
This set features 6 books with short reading passages sorted by difficulty–from low to high reading level. This progression allows students to begin at a lower reading level and then move on to higher levels as their skills improve. Reading levels begin at 2.0 and progress to 3.5 according to Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale.
A single, multiple choice question follows each reading passage and guides students to comprehend what they’ve read.
Perfect for skill reinforcement and assessment! Ideal for individual students, large groups, and as a center activity.
400+ total slides
Teacher’s Guide Pages
Answer Sheets
Answer Key
Comprehension Skills Progress Report Sheet
Life Skills Activities | Consumer Skills | Reading | Task Cards | Credit Cards
Improve Reading Comprehension AND Consumer Skills… at the Same Time! These easy-to-use & visually interesting Task Cards inform students of the ways they can use a credit card as well as the responsibilities of having a credit card. The in-depth information is presented in small, easy-to understand chunks. Students of multiple skill levels will be able to successfully access the information.
A step-by-step approach makes the task cards ideal for explicit instruction, life skills classes, remediation, transition students, special education, and more. Using a Credit Card can be used as a stand-alone unit of instruction or can be used as a companion teaching unit along with Credit Card Basics and Getting a Credit Card.
“What is Buying on Credit?” This set of task cards starts off by explaining what it means to buy something on credit.
“What is a Credit Limit?” Understanding a credit limit is basic information each credit card user needs to have.
“Ways to Use a Credit Card” Detailed information is given in this section of task cards explaining how to use a credit card in person, over the phone, and online.
“Credit Card Account Statement” How to read and understand an account statement is presented in a simple, step-by-step format using sample account statements.
“Responsible Credit Card Use” This last set of task cards emphasizes the importance of paying your credit card bill on time and not overspending or going over your credit limit.
READING SKILLS: Students will get lots of practice reading and interpreting the information presented as they are challenged to find facts, locate information, and read for detail. These quick Google task cards prepare students for learning about what it takes to get a credit card.
VERSATILE LESSONS: Lessons include multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank activities that require very little writing… making them ideal for daily lessons, progress monitoring, reading centers, quiz games, and task cards. All activities are multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank.
Includes:
40 Task Cards
Answer Key
Single Skill Practice for Reading Success! Provide your students with solid reading comprehension practice.
This set features 6 books with short reading passages sorted by difficulty–from low to high reading level. This progression allows students to begin at a lower reading level and then move on to higher levels as their skills improve. Reading levels begin at 3.0 and progress to 4.5 according to Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale.
A single, multiple choice question follows each reading passage and guides students to comprehend what they’ve read.
Perfect for skill reinforcement and assessment! Ideal for individual students, large groups, and as a center activity.
400+ total slides
Teacher’s Guide Pages
Answer Sheets
Answer Key
Comprehension Skills Progress Report Sheet
Single Skill Practice for Reading Success! Provide your students with solid reading comprehension and sequencing practice.
This unit features 16 reading passages sorted by difficulty–from low to high reading level. This progression allows students to begin at a lower reading level and then move on to higher levels as their skills improve. Reading levels begin at 2.0 and progress to 3.5 according to Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale.
Multiple choice questions follow each reading passage and guide students to identify the sequence of what they’ve read.
Perfect for skill reinforcement and assessment! Ideal for individual students, large groups, and as a center activity.
Reading Level 2.0-3.5 | Interest Level 2-12
Each segment has 26 pages total
16 - Skill Reading Cards
Teacher’s Guide Pages
Answer Sheets
Answer Key
Comprehension Skills Progress Report Sheet
Single Skill Practice for Reading Success! Provide your students with solid reading comprehension practice for making inferences.
This unit features 48, short reading passages sorted by difficulty–from low to high reading level. This progression allows students to begin at a lower reading level and then move on to higher levels as their skills improve. Reading levels begin at 2.0 and progress to 3.5 according to Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale.
A single, multiple choice question follows each reading passage and guides students to make inferences about what they’ve read.
Perfect for skill reinforcement and assessment! Ideal for individual students, large groups, and as a center activity.
Reading Level 2.0-3.5 | Interest Level 2-12
Comprehension Skills Progress Report Sheet
Answer Key
Answer Sheets
Teacher’s Guide Pages
16 - Skill Reading Cards
Each segment has 26 pages total
Life Skills Activities | Consumer Skills | Reading | Task Cards | Credit Cards
Improve Reading Comprehension AND Consumer Skills… at the Same Time! These easy-to-use & visually interesting Task Cards take students step-by-step through the process of getting a credit card. The in-depth information is presented in small, easy-to understand chunks. Students of multiple skill levels will be able to successfully access the information.
This step-by-step approach makes the task cards ideal for explicit instruction, life skills classes, remediation, transition students, special education, and more. Getting a Credit Card can be used as a stand-alone unit of instruction or can be used as a companion teaching unit along with Credit Card Basics and Using a Credit Card.
“How Do You Get a Credit Card?” This first set of task cards details what is required to get a credit card. It covers filling out an application and what it takes to get your application approved.
The approval process can be confusing. The next sets of task cards answer the following questions in depth: “What is a Credit Reference?”, “What is a Credit History?”, “What is a Credit Score?” Since credit scores are such an important part of a person’s financial record, the information used to figure out a credit score is explained in detail.
“Should You Get a Credit Card?” This last set of task cards lists the pros and cons of having a credit card. It gives students the information they need to decide if having a credit card is right for them.
READING SKILLS: Students will get lots of practice reading and interpreting the information presented as they are challenged to find facts, locate information, and read for detail. These task cards prepare students for learning about what it takes to get a credit card.
VERSATILE LESSONS: Lessons include multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank activities that require very little writing… making them ideal for daily lessons, progress monitoring, reading centers, quiz games, and task cards. All activities are multiple choice or fill in the blank.
Includes:
52 Task Cards
Answer Key
Single Skill Practice for Reading Success!
Provide your students with solid reading comprehension practice for drawing conclusions.
This unit features 48, short reading passages sorted by difficulty–from low to high reading level. This progression allows students to begin at a lower reading level and then move on to higher levels as their skills improve. Reading levels begin at 2.0 and progress to 3.5 according to Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale.
A single, multiple choice question follows each reading passage and guides students to draw conclusions about what they’ve read.
Perfect for skill reinforcement and assessment! Ideal for individual students, large groups, and as a center activity.
Reading Level 2.0-3.5 | Interest Level 2-12
Each segment has 26 pages total
16 - Skill Reading Cards
Teacher’s Guide Pages
Answer Sheets
Answer Key
Comprehension Skills Progress Report Sheet
Single Skill Practice for Reading Success!
Provide your students with solid reading comprehension practice for finding facts.
This unit features 16 reading passages sorted by difficulty–from low to high reading level. This progression allows students to begin at a lower reading level and then move on to higher levels as their skills improve. Reading levels begin at 2.0 and progress to 3.5 according to Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale.
Multiple choice questions follow each reading passage and guide students to find facts about what they’ve read.
Perfect for skill reinforcement and assessment! Ideal for individual students, large groups, and as a center activity.
Reading Level 2.0-3.5 | Interest Level 2-12
Each segment has 26 pages total
16 - Skill Reading Cards
Teacher’s Guide Pages
Answer Sheets
Answer Key
Comprehension Skills Progress Report Sheet
Single Skill Practice for Reading Success!
Provide your students with solid reading comprehension practice for using context clues.
This unit features 48, short reading passages sorted by difficulty–from low to high reading level. This progression allows students to begin at a lower reading level and then move on to higher levels as their skills improve. Reading levels begin at 2.0 and progress to 3.5 according to Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale.
A single, multiple choice question follows each reading passage and guides students to use context clues about what they’ve read.
Perfect for skill reinforcement and assessment! Ideal for individual students, large groups, and as a center activity.
Reading Level 2.0-3.5 | Interest Level 2-12
Each segment has 26 pages total
16 - Skill Reading Cards
Teacher’s Guide Pages
Answer Sheets
Answer Key
Comprehension Skills Progress Report Sheet
A LESSON-A-DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF SPRING!
ENGAGING READING COMPREHENSION LESSONS FOR EVERY DAY OF THE MONTH!
INCLUDES MARCH, APRIL, AND MAY!
For years you’ve loved our Daily Comprehension Series… Now we’ve created a whole new series emphasizing captivating events that have happened in the 21st Century!
Featuring celebrities, inventors, sports, scientific discoveries, dramatic events and more… this series is sure to give you an unending supply of relevant and intriguing daily reading lessons. Each high-Interest passage is followed by a full page of skill-specific comprehension activities designed to sharpen essential reading skills. This lesson-a-day series is sure to become a classroom favorite! Ideal for bell work, enrichment, remediation and review.
All captivating events happened in the last 20 years! This is a growing series that will eventually include the entire school year.
Reading Level: Grades 3 - 4
Interest Level: Grades 5 - 12
MORE DETAILS:
This 21st Century Daily Comprehension resource is an updated version of our popular Daily Comprehension series. A high-interest, nonfiction story has been chosen for each day of the month. The stories are a combination of historical, scientific, record-breaking, sports, and pop culture events that happened on that particular day. All of the stories are about events that occurred during the 21st Century.
Care was taken to choose topics that appeal to a wide-range of interests. Students will learn some serious and some fun facts while improving their reading skills. A page of skill-based questions follows each story. Comprehension skills include: facts, locating the answer, cause and effect, fact or opinion, sequence, main idea, conclusion, inference, context, and comparison.
Life Skills Activities | Consumer Skills | Reading | Task Cards |
Improve Reading Comprehension AND Consumer Skills… at the Same Time!
This bundle of easy-to-use & visually interesting Task Cards provides everything students need to know about credit cards. The in-depth information is presented in small, easy-to-understand chunks. Students of multiple skill levels will be able to successfully access the information.
A step-by-step approach makes these task cards ideal for explicit instruction, life skills classes, remediation, transition students, special education and more. The combination of Credit Card Basics, Getting a Credit Card, and Using a Credit Card offer a complete unit of instruction on this essential consumer skill.
IMPROVE READING SKILLS:
Students will get lots of practice reading and interpreting the information presented as they are challenged to find facts, locate information, and read for detail. These quick task cards prepare students for learning about what it takes to get a credit card.
VERSATILE LESSONS: These multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank activities require very little writing… making them ideal for daily lessons, review, progress monitoring, enrichment, quiz games, and task cards. All activities are multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank.
Includes:
135 task cards
Answer Key
Improve Reading Comprehension AND Consumer Skills… at the Same Time! These easy-to-use & visually interesting digital Task Cards inform students of the ways they can use a credit card as well as the responsibilities of having a credit card. The in-depth information is presented in small, easy-to understand chunks. Students of multiple skill levels will be able to successfully access the information.
A step-by-step approach makes the task cards ideal for explicit instruction, life skills classes, remediation, transition students, special education, and more. Using a Credit Card can be used as a stand-alone unit of instruction or can be used as a companion teaching unit along with Credit Card Basics and Getting a Credit Card.
“What is Buying on Credit?” This set of task cards starts off by explaining what it means to buy something on credit.
“What is a Credit Limit?” Understanding a credit limit is basic information each credit card user needs to have.
“Ways to Use a Credit Card” Detailed information is given in this section of task cards explaining how to use a credit card in person, over the phone, and online.
“Credit Card Account Statement” How to read and understand an account statement is presented in a simple, step-by-step format using sample account statements.
“Responsible Credit Card Use” This last set of task cards emphasizes the importance of paying your credit card bill on time and not overspending or going over your credit limit.
READING SKILLS: Students will get lots of practice reading and interpreting the information presented as they are challenged to find facts, locate information, and read for detail. These quick Google task cards prepare students for learning about what it takes to get a credit card.
VERSATILE LESSONS: These multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank activities require no writing… making them ideal for daily lessons, review, progress monitoring, enrichment, quiz games, and task cards. All activities are multiple choice or fill in the blank.
VERSATILE & EASY-TO-USE GOOGLE SLIDES:
We’ve done the work for you! Simply download these Google Slides and assign them to your students. Assign them all, or just today’s daily lesson! For additional flexibility, these slides can also be printed for in-class use! Each lesson includes 10 multiple choice questions making them ideal for assessment, review, quiz cards and more… These easy-to-use lessons do not require writing or typing. All questions are multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank which requires students to drag a circle or word to provide the correct answer.
BENEFITS OF GOOGLE SLIDES:
If you’ve been looking for a way to integrate technology into your lessons, this is your answer. And the best part is you don’t have to print, cut, laminate, or replace when you lose pieces…it’s ALL DIGITAL!