This practitioner resource and course text has given thousands of K-12 teachers evidence-based tools for helping students--particularly those at risk for reading difficulties--understand and acquire new knowledge from text. The authors present a range of scientifically validated instructional techniques and activities, complete with helpful classroom examples and sample lessons. The book describes ways to assess comprehension, build the skills that good readers rely on, and teach students to use multiple comprehension strategies flexibly and effectively. Each chapter features thought-provoking discussion questions. Reproducible lesson plans and graphic organizers can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. New to This Edition *Chapters on content-area literacy, English language learners, and intensive interventions. *Incorporates current research on each component of reading comprehension. *Discusses ways to align instruction with the Common Core State Standards. *Additional instructional activities throughout.

Four illustrated workbooks contain stories, brief articles, and poems in seven subject areas: general topics, social studies, science, logical thinking, mathematics, literature, and the arts. The variety of the selections gives students practice in reading about a wide range of subjects.

The BIGGEST collection of fun-filled activities for reading comprehension! When school is out, learning doesn't have to stop. This big book is filled with engaging activities for 1st graders to get extra reading comprehension practice while having tons of F-U-N too. The Big Book of Reading Comprehension Activities helps kids learn to really understand what they're reading. Designed to give kids extra practice in key skills for their grade level, this book begins with easy lessons and advances to more challenging readings and exercises to keep your little reader's skills as sharp as their pencils! Inside this reading comprehension book, you'll find: 120 Awesome activities--Fun stories, crosswords, coloring, and more engage kids and make them want to learn. All levels--Kids build comprehension skills as they progress from easy to medium to harder exercises. Key skills--Guide your eager reader retell stories, describe main ideas, compare and contrast, and more with reading comprehension activities that support common core standards. Make extra practice extra fun with each and every reading comprehension activity in this book.

The Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension assembles researchers of reading comprehension, literacy, educational psychology, psychology, and neuroscience to document the most recent research on the topic. It summarizes the current body of research on theory, methods, instruction, and assessment, including coverage of landmark studies. Designed to deepen understanding of how past research can be applied and has influenced the present and to stimulate new thinking about reading comprehension, the volume is organized around seven themes: historical perspectives on reading comprehension theoretical perspectives changing views of text elements of reading comprehension assessing and teaching reading comprehension cultural impact on reading comprehension where to from here? This is an essential reference volume for the international community of reading researchers, reading psychologists, graduate students, and professionals working in the area of reading and literacy.

Daily instruction on reading strategies and skills needed to improve comprehension and raise test scores.

Each unit includes a one-page nonfiction text and supporting activities, such as close reading, vocabulary, comprehension and writing.

"The Reading Comprehension Blueprint: Helping Students Make Meaning from Text provides readers with a deeper understanding of reading comprehension and recommendations for developing evidence-based instruction. This organizational framework, aligned with the language comprehension strands of Scarborough's Reading Rope, prompts educators to ask themselves critical questions about vocabulary, syntax and sentence comprehension, text structures, students' background knowledge, levels of understanding, and inference. Sample classroom activities, a unit plan, sample lesson plans, and other resources provide valuable models and tools to use for designing and delivering high-quality instruction"--