For secondary reading specialist and English teachers, this unique resource provides over 200 ready–to–use exercises to help you introduce and reinforce basic literary and reading concepts and develop essential thinking and interpretive skills with students of varying abilities. The activities are organized into 12 sequential units and build naturally to higher levels of reading proficiency. Each unit also includes reproducible reading selections plus an introductory section with suggestions for teaching the skills in that unit. Here?s just an overview of unit topics with sample worksheet titles: 1. THE GOOD READER IN ACTION presents a variety of warm–up exercises, such as "Filling in Famous Quotations," to help students become more flexible in working with words. 2. ALL WORDS ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL focuses on different kinds of reading in activities such as "Reading for Proof" and "Search & Scan Exercise." 3. WHEN TO USE A DICTIONARY features activities to help...