Reading Detective® Beginning Paperback – January 1, 2006

If you are looking for something to increase reading comprehension, look no further. It teaches students to analyze text and to use critical thinking. I am a tutor and I use Reading Detective for two of my students, one in elementary and one in high school. Highly recommended.

Perfect for my 3rd grader.Fun short stories engage my kid.He actually likes to read!And the questions are great.Love the system!

I love the Reading Detective Series. Each of my sons has used the various grades offered by this company and have thrived. This book is meant for 3-4 graders. I understand your child my be in these grades but have a lower or higher reading level. I can't give you the exact book to start with, but as a homeschool mom, I can tell you they are very accurately marked with the grade. Basically there is a reading passage of several paragraphs-a short story or exerpt from a book. The student is then to answer 8-10 multiple choice and direct questions about the story. The questions are thorough-some obvious, some require the child to look for specific sentences to back up their answer. All in all, the child learns to find the theme, supporting evidence, and learn to comprehend what they are reading more effectively. I highly recommend this book as a supplement to your language arts and daily reading. We saw improvement in comprehension and I believe you will as well.

I give the product 4 stars. It's simple and efficient.I want to mention that it was listed as "like new" by HPB but was actually missing the pretests pages and a few pages were completed.I don't have time to return and buy another one so I will find a way to get the pretests and then work around the done lessons.

My 8 year old loves this book. The stories are very well written.

The book is in absolutely new condition, just as advertised.

I was very impressed with this item. It is the best common core competency based reading comprehension book I have seen to date. It not only has grade 3-4 level passages but also detailed information and tips on how one Learns the comprehension skills such as target words, how to differentiate main idea from details, etc. I am about to order the other levels in the reading series for my tutoring practice.

I hope this book can bring my daughter’s reading level on track!