with text-dependent comprehension questions that help students tackle increasingly complex texts and provide the academic rigor called for by the Common Core State Standards.
- Each book features passages at various levels of text complexity.
- Companion comprehension questions require students to read closely, reread, and find explicit examples in the text to support their answers.
- Includes detailed qualitative complexity information to help teachers focus on the purpose and meaning, structure and language, and knowledge demands of each passage.