Guided instruction and strategy-building exercises prepare your students for success on Common Core exams These books are great for home schooling Explore Common Core/PARCC Reading stimulates responsive strategizing in your students, thereby boosting their chances for success on the Common Core Language Arts test. Each book consists of guided practice lessons with sample exercises and practice passages and questions. The workbook includes lessons and practice in the Common Core areas of Foundational Skills, Listening, and Informational Text including Phonics and Word Recognition, Fluency, Key Ideas and Details, and Craft and Structure. Students are presented with concepts related to the targeted clusters, followed by detailed, guided instruction to better familiarize themselves with the required skills, relevant terminology, and representative examples. Finally, students are given four practice passages, which gradually increase in readability, length, and difficulty. Passages 1-3 are coupled with hints. Passages range in readability to facilitate differentiated instruction.