Speed reading and text comprehension quick check: 1st grade

There is a concept in modern science - functional literacy. This is not just the ability to read, but the ability to understand the meaning of any, the very precipitated text. In some sense, this is the most important skill that has a student in the younger school. It will work out - it will be able to easily learn further, it will not work out - further training will be difficult or impossible.
The allowance you hold in your hands is just a simulator for functional literacy. It contains many short, but written by a rather "adult" language texts and a few questions to each text. According to the fact that the child answered for these questions, one can judge what he understood in the text, and that he ran past his attention.
Interesting text content will help children overcome reading difficulties. Unexpected, new facts will help the teacher and parents to form the child the desire for the knowledge necessary for successful learning