Reading Detective® Beginning

If you are looking for something to increase reading comprehension, look no further. It teaches students to analyze text and to use critical thinking. I am a tutor and I use Reading Detective for two of my students, one in elementary and one in high school. Highly recommended.

I love the Reading Detective Series. Each of my sons has used the various grades offered by this company and have thrived. This book is meant for 3-4 graders. I understand your child my be in these grades but have a lower or higher reading level. I can't give you the exact book to start with, but as a homeschool mom, I can tell you they are very accurately marked with the grade. Basically there is a reading passage of several paragraphs-a short story or exerpt from a book. The student is then to answer 8-10 multiple choice and direct questions about the story. The questions are thorough-some obvious, some require the child to look for specific sentences to back up their answer. All in all, the child learns to find the theme, supporting evidence, and learn to comprehend what they are reading more effectively. I highly recommend this book as a supplement to your language arts and daily reading. We saw improvement in comprehension and I believe you will as well.

Perfect for my 3rd grader.Fun short stories engage my kid.He actually likes to read!And the questions are great.Love the system!

I give the product 4 stars. It's simple and efficient.I want to mention that it was listed as "like new" by HPB but was actually missing the pretests pages and a few pages were completed.I don't have time to return and buy another one so I will find a way to get the pretests and then work around the done lessons.

I was very impressed with this item. It is the best common core competency based reading comprehension book I have seen to date. It not only has grade 3-4 level passages but also detailed information and tips on how one Learns the comprehension skills such as target words, how to differentiate main idea from details, etc. I am about to order the other levels in the reading series for my tutoring practice.

So far we love it. Yes even my son, who dislikes any formal lessons, said he likes it too! My son reads well, but needed some help with reading comprehension. This works well to address that specific issue. My 7 year old finds it challenging, but actually enjoys it. We are using it once a week.

I'm using this book for my 4th grader. Although he reads well, he needs practice drawing conclusions from what he reads. This book builds reasoning skill. Not only does the reader answer questions about what he/she read, but he/she tells what sentence or paragraph supports his/her conclusion. I recommend it.

I have been searching for sources to help teach my 9 year old how to critically "look" at everything he reads. This book offers short readings with questions at the end to assess reading comprehension. Each reading also includes a number of opportunities at the end, for your child to "infer" information, from what he/she has read, and to make an argument to support why they came to the information they did. Perfect!

As expected. Quicker delivery than thought. Bit pushy for a review but it obviously worked because here I am.

Excellent condition and arrived much quicker than expected, thanks