Headsprout Advanced Reading Comprehension

Headsprout Advanced Reading Comprehension provides explicit, systematic instruction in reading comprehension strategies and vocabulary for students in grades 4-6.

Headsprout Advanced Reading Comprehension includes:

• Fifty 30-minute online lessons that teach students four main comprehension strategies:
  • Finding answers in text
  • Making inferences
  • Identifying themes and the main idea
  • Learning vocabulary in context
• Instruction in and practice working with dictionaries and thesauri, prefixes and root words, and common idioms.
• Individualized, adaptive instruction—not just practice answering questions.
• Explicit vocabulary instruction that makes learning new vocabulary fast and easy.
• Automated student progress reports.
• Instruction and practice in reading and answering questions about different types of text, including:
  • Narrative text
  • Folktales
  • Poems
  • Drama
  • Informational text
  • Instructional text
  • Persuasive essays
  • Advertisements
  • Illustrations and diagrams