Use First-Rate Reading Basics: Comprehension to produce first-rate readers with fun, interactive, and original activities that emphasize reading skills for grades 2Ð3. These skills include pre-reading, monitoring comprehension, graphic and semantic organizers, answering and generating comprehension questions, recognizing story structure, summarizing, and interacting with the text. This 80-page book includes a reproducible parent letter and student assessment and enriches students' understanding of reading material throughout the year.