The Complete Comprehension Series
Jennifer Serravallo provides a simple, accessible, and effective framework for reading instruction.
- Assess readers in authentic trade books with prompts placed at key moments across the text.
- Evaluate students with Jen’s rubrics and determine what reading goal to teach toward.
- Teach with more of the strategies that made The Reading Strategies Book a bestseller.
Chapter books and increasingly complex nonfiction books challenge readers' ability to synthesize and accumulate information, and sustain comprehension. Longer texts require readers to be more skilled around several key goals:
- Fiction: Plot and setting; character; vocabulary and figurative language; and themes and ideas
- Nonfiction: Main idea, key details, vocabulary, and text features.
Assessing, Evaluating, and Teaching to Support Students' Comprehension of Chapter Books
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 settings which often change from chapter to chapter, and which may be
Assessing, Evaluating, and Teaching to Support Students’ Comprehension of Whole Nonfiction Books
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 key details from extraneous information, and understand the relationship between