Reading is one of the most important key competencies. The ability to extract information from texts plays a central role in all school subjects as well as in later professional life. This volume can help your students with special educational needs acquire and practice this skill. The book offers factual texts at a simple level on topics that truly interest young people, such as love, airplanes, the discovery of the South Pole, or the invention of toilet paper. For each topic, the volume provides two factual texts along with a variety of differentiated exercises for text comprehension. Additionally, the included CD offers further instructions for experiments and research assignments for each topic.