Topic: Comprehension

Feeling stuck between mandates and meaningful teaching? Join Heinemann authors Ellin Oliver Keene, Cris Tovani, Debbie Miller, Anne Goudvis, and Steph Harvey for a multi-event webinar to explore how to bring comprehension, thinking, and engagement back to literacy instruction.

Explore how nonfiction decodables support phonics development, build background knowledge, and help beginning readers apply skills in meaningful contexts.

Examine how decodable texts can support comprehension by reducing cognitive load and making meaning accessible to early readers.

Kylene Beers offers 5 ways teachers can help students improve fluency.

A routine for exploring works of art and other interesting things: What do you see? What do you think about that? What does it make you wonder?

Background knowledge acts as a framework that students can use to connect new information to what they already know, deepening their reading comprehension.

Content Area Reading Sets empower students to become confident, capable readers by integrating rich, real-world content into daily instruction.

By turning proven research into practical classroom resources, Content Area Reading Sets help students grow into confident, capable readers.

Real-world content connects reading to the world around us, inspiring curiosity, building knowledge, and supporting literacy growth.

Comprehension is the heart of literacy instruction and targeting it during whole-group literacy time ensures that all students are building the skills they need to become thoughtful, engaged readers.

Saxon Reading Foundations K–2 provides systematic, explicit, incremental, and cumulative instruction with application and continual review with foundational literacy skills that benefit all learners, particularly those students with dyslexia.

There are many ways to use Jump Rope Readers in your classroom. Like all decodable books, they can support whole class lessons, small group work, and independent practice.

How can alerting readers to significant moments transform the way you and your students engage with a text?

By weaving together different instructional contexts and resources, educators can create a cohesive and empowering literacy journey for each student, ensuring skill development and fostering a love for reading and learning.

The most effective small-group literacy interventions offer a targeted, supportive environment where students struggling with literacy can flourish.

Selecting students for small-group reading instruction is a critical decision that requires a thoughtful and data-driven approach.

Guided reading nurtures strong readers and plays a pivotal role in helping young learners become confident and capable readers.

Small-group reading lessons have the potential to transform students into confident and skilled readers.