Teach the reading and analysis of key text types with grade-level, knowledge-building topic sets featuring four types of text for Grades K-6: Informational, Narrative Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, and Opinion, plus Poetry. Topic sets focused on close reading for Grades K-2 deliver explicit instruction in text analysis and scaffolded content to facilitate comprehension and independent reading. Text-Dependent Comprehension Cards provide prompts for evidence-based answers. Cross-Text Analysis Cards encourage evaluation of content.
Sherlock Holmes believes that the disappearance of an obscure group known as the Red-Headed League is connected with the planning of a devious crime. Will the great detective solve the mystery in time to stop the evildoers?
Two policemen respond to a message about a woeful scream coming from a rooming house in the night. A gruesome tale of murder is not all that unravels during their investigation.
Nag and Nagaina, the cobras, are the king and queen of the garden—until Rikki-tikki-tavi, the mongoose, arrives on the scene. Can one small mongoose protect his human family from these two determined and dangerous enemies?
Mathilde Loisel, a beautiful young woman trapped in the middle class of French society in the 1880s, has a chance to live among the rich and famous of Paris for one glorious night. She seizes the opportunity but pays a terrible price.