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If students are to become more proficient in their application of skills, they will need to practice and apply them over and over. Here are two chief ways I ensure your students get that practice:

 Guided by the complexities of each text, I have distributed the skills identified earlier over the twenty books included in the five units in this book.

 Every skill is represented at least three times, and there are even more lessons on the two skills that receive great emphasis on new standards-based high-stakes assessments: vocabulary and text-to-text connections.

The text-to-text connections required by the standards are especially ambitious because readers must integrate and synthesize multiple texts—quite a challenge for young children whose reasoning is still more concrete than abstract. So please recognize that most students won’t get anywhere near “mastery”; college students are still getting the hang of text-to text analysis! Indeed, the best way to think about “meeting standards” is to remember that the described skill requirements increase from grade to grade, so what a child can do now will only graze the surface of what the same standard will demand later on.

That said, the five units in this book, and the rigorous yet child-centered instruction they represent, give you one great running start! Students will gain a solid foundation for all the areas comprehension they will further develop in later grades.