Download or read book Extreme Places, Grades 4 - 8 written by Kathryn Wheeler and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hook struggling readers with high-interest, low-readability nonfiction stories using Extreme Places in grades 4 and up. This 64-page book focuses on reading skills, such as determining the author’s purpose, defining vocabulary, making predictions, and identifying details, synonyms, antonyms, and figures of speech. It includes multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and true/false questions; short-answer writing practice; and comprehension questions in standardized test format. Students stay interested, build confidence, and discover that reading can be fun!