Quick, easy and effective activites support national and state reading standards and help students improve the skills that they need for success in testing. The warm-ups include fiction and nonfiction reading passages are followed by questions that are based on Bloom"s Taxonomy to allow for higher-level thinking skills. Topics in this series: animals, biographies, history, science, current events, fairy tales/fables, historical fiction, contemporary fiction, fantasy, mystery/suspense/adventure.Quick, easy and effective activites support national and state reading standards and help students improve the skills that they need for success in testing. Both fiction and nonfiction reading passages are followed by questions that are based on Bloom"s Taxonomy to allow for higher-level thinking skills. Topics in this series: animals, biographies, history, science, current events, fairy tales/fables, historical fiction, contemporary fiction, fantasy, mystery/suspense/adventure.