Best Selling Books by Melissa Billings

Subject matter for thought ful interpretation and sicussion while challenging your students in 4 critical reading categories: main idea, important details, inferences, and vocabulary in context.

Subject matter for thoughtful interpretation and discussion while challenging your students in 4 critical reading categories: main idea, important details, inferences, and vocabulary in context.

Adventures in Reading combines adventure based readings with a picture-dictionary approach to build vocabulary and develop critical reading and test-taking skills for academic success. Each book in the Adventures in Reading series contains 16 six-page chapters that develop reading comprehension and vocabulary building skills around high-interest reading passages. A Scope & Sequence section at the front of each book outlines the array of the skills covered. A Skills Index at the back of each book shows teachers where each skill is introduced and recycled. Passages in the beginning level student book run 250-350 words in length, and passages in the intermediate level student book run 400-500 words in length.

Part of the On the Edge series that engages students with stories in three broad categories: Supernatural/Paranormal, True crime and Unexplainable events, this text focuses on reading selections that deal with scary experiences such as the Tylenol murders, people held against their will, stalkers, and rats and snakes.

Reading Level 6-8 and Interest Level 6-23

A series of stories that summarize the heroic acts of people. Includes reading comprehension exercises and an answer key.