Do you teach (and assess) skills such as reading comprehension, listening comprehension, responding to text, or defending answered with text evidence? Do you address ELA skills like main idea, using descriptive words, inferencing, making predictions, using context clues to decipher unknown words, compare/contrast, fact/opinion, mood, making self-to-text connections, etc.?These short but juicy passages were created for intensive practice with comprehension skills so that students- especially stud