Compass Publishing

Reading Lamp 1

Features

•Thematically paired fiction and non-fiction unit topics

•Full-color illustration accompanying all fiction passages and activities

•Full-color photographs accompanying all non-fiction passages and activities

•Comprehension activities in both textual and graphic formats

•Repeated recycling of high-frequency vocabulary

•Dual-format audio recordings of all passages for listening/read-along and listening/repeating

•Pull-out full-color workbook included

Unit Structure

•Warm-up: questions to activate student schema related to title, images, and topic

•New Words: list of target vocabulary with accompanying photos that “define” usage in the unit

•Reading: target passage

•Checking: comprehension questions including a main-idea question and two detail questions

•Listening: picture-based listening activity featuring target vocabulary of unit

•Mapping: comprehension reinforcement activity based on graphic organizer representing passage content

•Vocabulary Review: various activities to reinforce target vocabulary usage

•Summary: picture-supported reinforcement of passage content and unit target vocabulary

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