Master Skills Series: Reading Comprehension Grade 3

by School Specialty Publishing

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Master Skills Reading Comprehension, grade 3 is the perfect workbook to help children “master” reading comprehension skills necessary to succeed in school!

Designed by educational experts, specifically for children in third grade, this essential workbook teaches children the basic concepts and skills of reading comprehension and then offers a variety of activities for skill-and-drill practice. Featuring 128 pages of challenging lesson content with real-life applications, easy-to-understand directions and a complete answer key.

Skills taught include:

•Vocabulary

•Main Ideas

•Opposites

•Recognizing Details

•Homophones

•Following Directions

The Master Skills series has drawn national acclaim for its vivid illustrations, challenging lesson content and real-life applications. It spans grades K through 6 in six key subject areas, reading comprehension, English, math, reading, spelling & writing, and thinking skills. It is the perfect workbook series to teach children learning fundamentals.

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Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 stars

standard reading practice book, 2008-03-10
I was looking for a reading comprehension workbook to prepare my third grader for Beestar online reading assessment. This book provides fairly short paragraphs composed at grade 2-3 level. The topics are very kids friendly. It is perfect for your child to practice and get ready for state standard tests. We don't see any challenging words in the text, so your third grader should proceed lesson by lesson without difficulty. The book contains colorful pictures that attract children's attention. My child's Beestar assessment test was slightly harder than this book. But the concepts and skills are the same. Overall it's a fair book serving the purpose.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 stars

It's just what we wanted!, 2007-12-29
We were looking for a book that would provide practice specifically in reading comprehension skills, for a child in second grade who is reading above grade level in most other respects (vocabulary, etc.). This book suits that need very well.

We wanted our young student to have some short reading assignments, and to develop the discipline of answering questions *only using information from the text* -- as opposed to answering from personal experience, or guessing, etc. It's not really the same thing as being "smart" and it's not the same thing as understanding the vocabulary. I was glad to see that this book does indeed offer plenty of practice in that skill area, as well as various other activities, as described in the product listing.

Another reviewer here has observed that the book does not appear to be truly geared for third grade, despite its title. My guess is that it probably is indeed geared for *some* third graders, considering that kids in this age range have widely-varying skill levels.

Still, I'd tend to agree with that reviewer, because our second-grader's teacher had used a few of the pages from this book (or one like it) for homework assignments! I mean, word-for-word, they were the same pages, and these are just regular kids in second grade. Presumably most of them were able to do the homework, but I can't vouch for it.

I also haven't had a chance to find out if the teacher was using this same book, or another one from the same publisher, or what. It would not surprise me if an educational publisher reprints the same thing in different products, geared toward supposedly different markets.

The contents are not great literature, and I have small quibbles with the quality and precision of a few things here and there. But overall I'm happy with the purchase. I wouldn't want to rely on it for a child's entire education, but I don't think that's its purpose. It is a useful tool for extra enrichment for kids somewhere in this general age range (6 at the very lowest to 9 at the highest, I'd guess).

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3 out of 5 stars

It's okay, 2007-08-23
I was looking for a good reader's comprehension book to use on my third grader. This book is very short (4 to 5 sentences) paragraphs followed by 3 questions. I was looking for something a little longer. The topics in the book are fairly kid friendly and if you are just looking for something for you child to practice on for test taking purposes, I guess it's okay. The vocabulary is very simple (more like 1st or maybe 2nd grade) so there is nothing that your 3rd grader won't understand. Graphics are good and colorful, although they are mostly just covering blank parts of the page and not adding to the stories they illistrate. Just didn't seem like a 3rd grade leve. I'm going to use it for my 2nd grader.

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