HIGH-INTEREST SKILLS & STRATEGIES lusions c n Co cabulary aw Vo r D e / Contrast Classifica O rd redict n er o f E v e P & w P r e v ie LEVEL 5 100 REPRODUCIBLE ACTIVITIES Reading Comprehension Skills and Strategies Level 5 Saddleback Educational Publishing Three Watson Irvine, CA 92618-2767 Web site: www.sdlback.com Development and Production: The EDGe ISBN 1-56254-032-7 Copyright ©2002 by Saddleback Educational Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission of the publisher, with the following exception. Pages labeled Saddleback Educational Publishing ©2002 are intended for reproduction. Saddleback Educational Publishing grants to individual purchasers of this book the right to make sufficient copies of reproducible pages for use by all students of a single teacher. This permission is limited to an individual teacher, and does not apply to entire schools or school systems. Printed in the United States of America 06 05 04 03 02 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Table of Contents To be a good detective, you have to know what facts Skills are important and not important to the case you’re solving! So, ask yourself questions as you read. Teacher welcome and teaching tips . . . . . . . . . 4 Identifying metaphors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Analyzing root words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Identifying similes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Analyzing root words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Identifying similes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Analyzing root word origins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Categorizing information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40 Adding prefix or suffix to root words . . . . . . . . 9 Categorizing information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 Analyzing prefixes . . . . . .