This resource is the quickest guide to increasing your child's non-fiction reading comprehension level. Have you ever heard of the Fourth Grade Slump? Well it's real and this workbook is one of the cures. The Fourth Grade Slump occurs because around fourth grade kids begin to make the transition from learning to read to reading to learn. Kids are expected to know more and more information, retain that information, and answer multiple choice questions based off of what they have read. Now we want to put the child in the driver seat. This book guides kids in how to ask questions using the title and illustration on the cover. It puts the child in charge of figuring out what words are unknown and how to pay attention to their meaning while reading. How many kids go to the table of contents to read it? Well, now they will have a reason. If they turn the heading into a question, then their question has a greater chance of getting answered in that section. Each child will learn how to answer questions developed by the test makers effectively with the tools in this book. Quadruple retention with these tips and you will significantly set up the child for non-fiction reading success. Here is what you can expect from using this book. 1. Increase Non-fiction reading levels 2. Increase Reading Comprehension 3. Retain more information over time 4. Become a better reader Overall your child will be able to utilize the skills that she learns in this book to study skills that will help her master any subject. Your child will learn how to study the most important information and teach that information to another individual. Teaching concepts to another person has been one of those skills that will help with retention of the content learned. By using the information in this book you will be able prepare your child's brain for information she is going to learn in class. Many teachers assign a passage to be read for homework, the child reads it, and usually the child forgets most of the information that she has learned. The tools in this book will help your child with being able to remember what is read and being able to ask high level questions during class that will increase the level of understanding your child has about the content being learning. Content reading is going to be the type of reading that your child is expected to do the most, so why not give your child all of the tools to be able to do it effectively. Your child will be able to read, retain, and discuss the information learned from reading with the tools in this book. Get a copy of this book and increase your child's non-fiction reading level today.
About the Author: Joanne Kaminski is a top selling Amazon author for her book 31 Days to Become a Better Reader: Increasing your Struggling Reader's Reading Level. She has been a 3rd grade teacher, 4th grade teacher and a Reading Coordinator at the Milwaukee Academy of Science. She participated in the Reading First Grant as the Reading Coordinator and guided her team to use best teaching practices in the area of reading. Joanne continued her education and received a license as a certified Reading Tutor and certified Reading Specialist. After leaving the school system to stay home with her children she began her own online reading tutoring program called The Skyping Reading Tutor. While working closely with parents Joanne realized that some parents where looking for an easy way to help their child, but they didn't really know where to begin and what to concentrate on. This inspired Joanne to write 31 Days to Become a Better Reader. This book is a challenge to parents to come up with a reading plan with their child, make a commitment, and record the learning that happens. Helping struggling readers is Joanne's passion. She has created a program to increase non-fiction reading comprehension as well as a reading fluency intervention that will increase your child's reading with just 8-12 hours of instruction. As a published author Joanne hopes to help more children with increasing their reading level and to let people know about what she is able to do. It is her personal mission to help 10,000 kids become better readers and to increase their motivation to become lifelong readers in a literate society. Not only does Joanne write books to help struggling readers, but she write's childrens books that will get your child laughing with her humourous fiction. Joanne's goal is to guide children in educational success and she understands that there are no limits to what she can accomplish.