The Comprehension Toolkit: Language and Lessons for Active Literacy, Grades 3-6

The Comprehension Toolkit series from Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis provides everything you need to help students understand, respond to, and learn from nonfiction text. Toolkit includes ready-to-teach lessons for reading comprehension. It also helps you to design your own comprehension strategy lessons to develop independent readers and learners across any content or curriculum. The teaching and learning in The Comprehension Toolkit series centers on comprehension-strategy lesson books organized around foundational comprehension strategies. Each ready-to-go lesson provides teaching moves and teaching language, as well as a lesson frame to fit any curriculum.

Features

• Book 1: Monitor Comprehension shares ways readers keep track of their thinking and monitor their understanding as they read.
• Book 2: Activate and Connect alerts students to the impact background knowledge has on their learning and supports them to connect the new to the known.
• Book 3: Ask Questions highlights how readers can use questions to clarify unfamiliar ideas and discover new information.
• Book 4: Infer and Visualize teaches students how to use context clues and text evidence to draw conclusions about and crack open the new concepts and big ideas in a text.
• Book 5: Determine Importance helps students identify, organize, and share the important ideas and information in a text. Book 6: Summarize and Synthesize encourages students to go beyond the simple restating of facts, to pull together their thinking and use all the strategies to understand big ideas