A simple, flexible solution for Reading Skills Support. Reading Comprehension Across the Genres can be used in a variety of ways: practice, remediation, reinforcement/review, enrichment, and homework. This volume includes 35 lessons covering these genres: essays, novels, letters, reviews, cartoons, poems, scripts, journals, short stories, advertisements, functional documents, and tables and charts. Students will work in a 5-step exercise format with basic, literal understanding questions, author's purpose, text structure and language features questions, interpretive questions, higher-order interpretive and critical thinking questions, and activities to extend the text through writing, listening, speaking, and viewing. Can be used on a reproducible or consumable basis. 128 pages.