Help your students identify and practice the skills they most need to improve with this series of reading workbooks. Each question in these extraordinary books targets a specific skill that students must master to succeed on state assessments. The passages in these workbooks consist of narrative and expository text. Expository passages include informative, biographical, and how-to selections. There are mixed passages and paired passages. Mixed passages put two different kinds of writing together in one lesson. Paired passages have two separate passages about the same topic that are read together. Questions follow each passage. The answer keys in the Teacher Edition identify the type of passage, the higher-level vocabulary found in each passage, and each reading objective tested along with its correct answer, as well as extension activities that may be used as follow-up after each passage has been used for assessment. If you would like to target a specific area where students need improvement or development, then these books are for you Great for home schooling