Phonics,

Reading Focus' success is based on the skill mastery of focused activities designed to address specific standards.  For the nature and needs of the seventh grade  student, lessons must be exciting, interesting, and rewarding while being void of extremely immature facsimiles.  To reach the seventh grade student Reading Focus has developed research-based-exciting activities.  

Reading Focus also gives remedial students another chance to learn the required skills to move on to the rewards of literacy. 

What are the goals of this seventh Grade Book?   

1. To teach students to grasp comprehension skills that authors use.
2. To make reading less challenging.
3. To help students learn to pleasures and treasury found in reading.
4. To make reading more enjoyable forever, and dreams come true.

Reading Focus is an engaging medium for providing instructions of specific comprehension strategies. 

Reading Focus provides opportunities for review and remediation of previously taught skills, or newly taught skills that students need to know in order to increase understanding. 

This resource supports students who are struggling to grasp and recognize nomenclature, definitions, and concepts.

Reading Focus was written to introduce comprehension, but may serve as a reinforcement or supplemental resource to help make literacy dreams come true for students, teachers, and parents.

THE BOOK CONTAINS

The Reading Process

Making Predictions and Generalizations

Reading Know-How

Main Idea Purpose, Problem, Effect, Message

Supporting Details

Drawing Conclusions

Order Of and Within Paragraphs

Reading Textbooks

Text Features

Capitals and Words in Sentences

Reading Nonfiction

Persuasive Techniques

Cause and Effect

Opinions vs. Facts and Essays

Narrative Text

Essays

Author’s Purpose

Character’s Traits, Emotions, and Motivations

Theme, Protagonist, Antagonist, Dynamic, and Static Characters

Comparing and Contrasting

Novel Version and Play Version in Literary Text

Historical Moments

Mood and Tone

Story Development

Figurative Language

Interpreting Words, Phrases, and Literary Techniques

Story Development and Point of View

Identifying the Literary Forms of Poetry

Communication Features

Texts, Graphs, Charts, and Technology

Reading for Tests

Improving Vocabulary and Comprehension

Context Clues

Word Construction and Meaning

Alternate Word Meaning

Summarizing Most Important Messages