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Encourage independent learning with kits that utilize the "gradual release of responsibility" model.
Try it before you buy: Request a Sample. Choose Level A or Level 2 Sample Packet.
This flexible and award-winning reading kit gives you interactive classroom materials and instructional support you need to teach essential comprehension strategies easily and effectively. Model each strategy with visually compelling transparencies. Guide practice with interactive student cards. And apply learning with engaging, leveled texts. Comprehension Strategies Kits are ideal for students below, on, or above grade level.
The powerful instruction plan employs the "gradual release of responsibility" model - based on teaching techniques proven to be effective for comprehension strategy instruction.
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MODEL with Modeling Transparencies
Modeling Transparencies guide teacher instruction.
- Includes everything teachers need to model strategies successfully.
- A direct explanation allows the teacher to introduce each strategy, including when, how, and why to use it.
- By thinking aloud, teachers give students an opportunity to observe the process of a proficient reader.
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18 Fiction and 18 nonfiction Modeling Transparencies (3 per strategy) introduce and model strategies.
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PRACTICE with Interactive Practice Cards
Interactive Practice Cards for students and teachers to use together.
- Build understanding and provide support as students practice vital comprehension strategies.
- Collaborative discussion fosters understanding as students explore the text from multiple perspectives.
- Hands-on interaction with the text strengthens awareness and learning as students practice the strategy.
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6 fiction & 6 nonfiction Interactive Practice Cards provide hands-on, guided strategy practice. Plus, a set of 12 erasable markers!
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APPLY with Leveled Reading Selections
Leveled Selections allow students to apply what they've learned.
- Give students texts they love and watch them grow into fluent, independent readers.
- Fiction and nonfiction selections offer students the chance to apply the strategy to a wide range of literary forms.
- Scaffolded prompts encourage self-managed, independent work.
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18 Fiction and 18 Nonfiction Leveled Selections (6 copies of each) to practice and apply strategies independently.
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Each Complete Kit covers 6 key strategies:
- Monitor and Clarify
- Make Connections
- Visualize
- Ask Questions
- Infer and Predict
- Summarize
Complete Kit contents:
- 36 Modeling Transparencies (18 fiction, 18 non-fiction; 3 per strategy) to introduce and model the strategies.
- 12 Interactive Practice Cards (6 fiction, 6 non-fiction; 12 copies each) to provide hands-on, guided strategy practice. Plus, a set of 12 erasable markers!
- 36 Leveled Selections (18 fiction; 18 non-fiction; 6 copies each) for below-level, on-grade, and above-level readers to practice and apply the strategies independently.
- 2 Teacher's Guides with Resource CD-ROM (1 fiction, 1 non-fiction) for teaching and assessing each strategy. Plus, colorful strategy posters to hang in the classroom!
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Kit
Level |
Guided Reading
Level |
Readability
Level |
Word
Count |
Readability
Detail |
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Kit A |
C - K |
1.0 – 3.0 |
80-200 |
Kit A |
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Kit B |
D - P |
1.0 – 4.0 |
125-360 |
Kit B |
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Kit 1 |
H - S |
2.0 – 5.0 |
175-510 |
Kit 1 |
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Kit 2 |
L - W |
2.5 – 6.0 |
210-775 |
Kit 2 |
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Kit 3 |
O - Z |
3.5 – 7.0 |
210-980 |
Kit 3 |
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TEACHER RESOURCES
Each Complete Kit includes 2 easy-to-use Teacher's Guides with Resource CD-ROMs (one fiction, one nonfiction) to deliver comprehensive support for teaching reading comprehension strategies.
- Explicit, step-by-step lesson plans for each component to minimize prep time.
- Reproducible blackline masters to support every leveled selection.
- Formative and summative assessments to inform teaching and measure growth—including quick checks, pretests, and posttests.
- Printable take-home readers for independent reading, with accompanying family letters in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Haitian Creole.
- Look inside! Download a Teacher Guide Sample Booklet using the links below.
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Awards: Learning Magazine® 2008 Teachers' Choice for the Classroom Award in Supplemental Materials.
Try it before you buy: Request a Sample. Choose Level A or Level 2 Sample Packet. |
Comprehension Strategies Kit Research Report
