Explicit teaching for deep comprehension.
Whole Book Comprehension for Grade 1 is a practical, research-based complement to any literacy program or core curriculum, helping students build engagement, stamina, and focus while developing the kind of deep comprehension that grows through sustained reading of real fiction and nonfiction whole books.
Learn more about Whole Book Comprehension for Grades 1–6.
Whole Book Comprehension for Grade 2 is a practical, research-based complement to any literacy program or core curriculum, helping students build engagement, stamina, and focus while developing the kind of deep comprehension that grows through sustained reading of real fiction and nonfiction whole books.
Whole Book Comprehension for Grade 3 is a practical, research-based complement to any literacy program or core curriculum, helping students build engagement, stamina, and focus while developing the kind of deep comprehension that grows through sustained reading of real fiction and nonfiction whole books.
Whole Book Comprehension for Grade 4 is a practical, research-based complement to any literacy program or core curriculum, helping students build engagement, stamina, and focus while developing the kind of deep comprehension that grows through sustained reading of real fiction and nonfiction whole books.
Whole Book Comprehension for Grade 5 is a practical, research-based complement to any literacy program or core curriculum, helping students build engagement, stamina, and focus while developing the kind of deep comprehension that grows through sustained reading of real fiction and nonfiction whole books.
Whole Book Comprehension for Grade 6 is a practical, research-based complement to any literacy program or core curriculum, helping students build engagement, stamina, and focus while developing the kind of deep comprehension that grows through sustained reading of real fiction and nonfiction whole books.
In You Already Know, José Luis Vilson shows teachers how to surface students’ existing knowledge and use it as the foundation for deeper, more engaging math learning. Practical, flexible, and immediately usable, this book offers a responsive approach to math instruction that helps students build confidence, take risks, and see themselves as mathematical thinkers.
The Units of Study in Reading have been completely revised and updated for Grades K–5 to reflect current research in literacy instruction. Aligned with science of reading principles and the Reading Rope framework, they emphasize reading and discussing whole books, not just excerpts or short passages.
Teaching practices to build students' prior knowledge, a key component to reading comprehension.
The Jump Rope Readers decodable books gradually and systematically introduce beginning readers to new letter-sound correspondences and high-frequency words. Along the way, they also introduce memorable characters, exciting adventures, fascinating nonfiction content and the foundational elements of fiction and nonfiction texts.
52 short nonfiction texts for American History (1750-1800) with 10 new lessons for content literacy
“We turn information into knowledge by thinking about it. These texts support students in using the Toolkit’s comprehension and thinking strategies as tools to acquire and actively use knowledge in history.”
—Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis