The Comprehension Toolkit: Language and Lessons for Active Literacy, Grades 3-6
The Comprehension Toolkit: Language and Lessons for Active Literacy, Grades 3-6
Book 1: Monitor Comprehension shares ways readers keep track of their thinking and monitor their understanding as they read.
Book 2: Activate and Connect alerts students to the impact background knowledge has on their learning and supports them to connect the new to the known.
Book 3: Ask Questions highlights how readers can use questions to clarify unfamiliar ideas and discover new information.
Book 4: Infer and Visualize teaches students how to use context clues and text evidence to draw conclusions about and crack open the new concepts and big ideas in a text.
Book 5: Determine Importance helps students identify, organize, and share the important ideas and information in a text. Book 6: Summarize and Synthesize encourages students to go beyond the simple restating of facts, to pull together their thinking and use all the strategies to understand big ideas