Comprehension from the Ground Up: Simplified, Sensible Instruction for the K-3 Reading Workshop

Comprehension from the Ground Up: Simplified, Sensible Instruction for the K-3 Reading Workshop

<p><strong>Why has comprehension instruction become so complex? </strong></p> <p><strong>Sharon Taberski</strong> cuts through the pressurized, strategy-overloaded, fluency-crazed atmosphere surrounding reading instruction to lay out the reading and writing workshop practices that are most effective in developing readers in the primary grades. She shares the daily how-tos needed to sustain a literacy block that engages children in authentic reading and writing practices including dozens of <strong>effective practices </strong>that illustrate amazing ways to organize instructional and independent reading for kids including:<strong></strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>letter and sound searches </strong>that improve students' word accuracy and fluency </li> <li><strong>companion books bags </strong>that develop their confidence and comprehension </li> <li><strong>strategy sheets </strong>that make children's thinking about text concrete </li> <li>a <strong>Putting Our Strategies to Work Board</strong> that enables students to reflect on and discuss the meta-cognitive strategies they're using </li> <li><strong>Idea Books </strong>and<strong> Ta-da Publishing Books </strong>that help children get inside the reading and writing process and see how each feeds the other.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Two Options for dynamic DVD-based staff development: </strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>for your workshop or PLC,</strong> the <em>Lessons from the Ground Up DVD </em>features 105-minutes of video clips of Sharon in the classroom, modeling effective ways to develop comprehension plus a 64-page facilitator's guide supports the DVD, lesson by lesson. </li> <li><em>It's All About Comprehension</em> is <strong>a long-term staff development initiative</strong> with 3 DVDs (7 hours) of whole-class, small-group, and one-on-one instruction from Sharon.</li> </ul>