Topic: Comprehension

Background knowledge acts as a framework that students can use to connect new information to what they already know, deepening their reading comprehension.

Comprehension is the heart of literacy instruction and targeting it during whole-group literacy time ensures that all students are building the skills they need to become thoughtful, engaged readers.

There are many ways to use Jump Rope Readers in your classroom. Like all decodable books, they can support whole class lessons, small group work, and independent practice.

Kylene Beers offers 5 ways teachers can help students improve fluency.

How can alerting readers to significant moments transform the way you and your students engage with a text?

How can alerting readers to significant moments transform the way you and your students engage with a text?

By weaving together different instructional contexts and resources, educators can create a cohesive and empowering literacy journey for each student, ensuring skill development and fostering a love for reading and learning.

A strategy for deepening understanding with a text. Excerpt from Kylene's audiobook.

The most effective small-group literacy interventions offer a targeted, supportive environment where students struggling with literacy can flourish.

Saxon Phonics and Spelling K–2 provides systematic, explicit, incremental, and cumulative instruction with application and continual review with foundational literacy skills that benefit all learners, particularly those students with dyslexia.

Selecting students for small-group reading instruction is a critical decision that requires a thoughtful and data-driven approach.

Guided reading nurtures strong readers and plays a pivotal role in helping young learners become confident and capable readers.

Small-group reading lessons have the potential to transform students into confident and skilled readers.

A list of Heinemann professional books published in 2023.

Learn how to use decoding assessments to teach phonics to K-2 students and get a free phonic decoding assessment tool.

Learn to use decodable texts to plan effective small group work with this sample teaching sequence from Michael Rae-Grant.

Heinemann Podcast Commuter Series: Making the Work in Your Class Relevant

As educators, we all want our students to have the skills and insights needed to navigate the world outside of their classroom. In this mission, the significance of relevance in reading cannot be understated.