As nonfiction books become more sophisticated, they challenge students’ ability to synthesize and accumulate information and sustain comprehension. Longer texts require readers to be more skilled around the goals of:

• Determining the main idea of of sections, chapters, and the whole book
• Identifying and separating

Chapter books challenge readers' ability to synthesize and accumulate information, and sustain comprehension. Longer texts require readers to be more skilled around the goals of:

• sustaining understandings about plots that have many events, and may include events out of order (flashback, foreshadowing)
• visualizing

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Why has comprehension instruction become so complex?

Sharon Taberski cuts through the pressurized, strategy-overloaded, fluency-crazed atmosphere surrounding reading instruction to lay out the reading and writing workshop practices that are most effective in developing readers in the primary grades. She shares the daily how-tos needed... more

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“We have created the lessons in these books to help teachers give their English language learners the conceptual background and English language structures they need to collaborate fully in each Toolkit lesson.”

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Uncover the Power of Nonfiction with The Primary Comprehension Toolkit

The Primary Comprehension Toolkit stands out with its sharp focus on nonfiction texts, presenting a wealth of strategies and lessons to empower students to engage with, understand, and learn from informational texts. The Toolkit helps students navigate informational text, connect new ideas... more