Topic: Comprehension Toolkit

The Comprehension Toolkit supports teachers to teach content knowledge and thinking strategies to students who come from varying cultural and linguistic backgrounds and are learning English as a new language.

As kids learn about and comprehend the world, their comprehension is strengthened by existing and new knowledge. When kids build their knowledge store, it’s thinking and learning intensive.

See how an inquiry-based classroom moves into the community to affect civic change.

On Presidents’ Day, delve into the complexities of slavery during the American Revolution and founding of our republic. Includes downloadable lesson.

Researcher's workshop is an ideal way to address content, skills, and content across curriculums and standards. Included are examples from a classroom.

Inquiry that builds knowledge and understanding can be found through researcher's workshop. Learn about inquiry frameworks with downloadable forms.

Taking a test requires some skills and strategies that are quite distinct from the reading we do every day. Here are some tips for teaching test reading.

Confident readers read and think flexibly and critically about content AND perform effectively on the test.

Powerful strategies to help readers better understand what they read from the coauthors of The Comprehension Toolkit Series, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis.

Learn the three essential principles for helping striving readers continue to grow over the summer from a co-author of the Comprehension Toolkit, Stephanie Harvey.

The Comprehension Toolkit series offers robust instruction to encourage students to develop the reading comprehension skills that lead to lifelong learning. See what's inside in this unboxing video!

Sometimes it can be hard to imagine how you might infuse deeper comprehension work into your district- mandated curriculum or instructional framework. If this sounds familiar...

Stephanie Harvey & Anne Goudvis explain how The Intermediate Comprehension Toolkit is a resource, not a program. It can be adapted to and integrated with any instructional approach.

The 6 Comprehension Strategies Every Reader Must Learn

Connecting Comprehension and Content: A Visual Podcast with Anne Goudvis and Stephanie Harvey

Teachers who create classrooms like this instill a disposition to explore, investigate, read on, and learn more. The real world is rich, fascinating, and compelling, and because kids are living in it, let’s replicate it in our classrooms.

How To Acquire And Use Knowledge, And Dive Deeper Into Different Perspectives

How To Teach Comprehension Responsively At Any Grade Level With Any Text