The Comprehension Toolkit Series (Grades 3-6) offers an array of professional support options. Select the option that addresses your needs best.
- Correlation to the Common Core State Standards (K–2)
- Correlation to the Common Core State Standards (3–6)
- Presentation materials
- Related Chapters from the Teacher's Guide
- Seminars
Slide Presentation
The following slide presentations can be used to introduce the Comprehension Toolkit series to adoption committees or as part of an inservice plan for launching the series in your school. The series and component overviews in each slide presentation are provided in an easy-to-access PDF format. You can print out each four-color presentation onto transparencies or view electronically through Acrobat Reader. Select "Full Screen" in the "View" menu and advance pages using the arrows on your keyboard.
- The K-2 slide presentation describes the thinking, organization, and components in The Primary Comprehension Toolkit.
- The 3-6 slide presentation describes the thinking, organization, and components in The Comprehension Toolkit, Grades 3-6.
- The K-6 slide presentation describes the thinking, organization, and components shared by The Primary Comprehension Toolkit and The Comprehension Toolkit, Grades 3-6.
Handouts/Flyers
Customize your presentation with this menu of designed handouts.
- Overview Flyer (11"x17")
- Components and organization
- Quick Start Guide
- Strategy books
- Informational text
- Resources DVD-ROM
- Teacher's Guide
- Lesson walkthrough
- Components and organization
- Strategy books
- Informational text
- Resources CD-ROM
- Teacher's Guide
- Extend and Investigate
- Lesson walkthrough
In addition to the professional support built into each unit book, the Teacher's Guide in each Toolkit offers select chapters on specific pressing concerns.
- How to Integrate The Primary Toolkit into Your Reading Program and Your Curriculum
- Using the Toolkit in Science and Social Studies: Active Literacy Across the Curriculum
- Scheduling the Toolkit into the Day, Week, and Year
Developed in collaboration with Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis
The Comprehension Toolkit emphasizes active literacy-reading, writing, talking, listening and investigating-and in this firsthand course, your teachers will discover how to use the Toolkit to develop these crucial comprehension skills.
Exploring the resources provided in The Comprehension Toolkit, teachers will learn how Stephanie Harvey and Anne Gouvis' model of instruction moves students toward strategic reading and deeper comprehension. The Toolkit course offers ways to make comprehension lessons explicit by using instructional strategies such as modeling, guided practice, collaborative practice, and independent practice.
Help students develop the inner conversations with texts that lead to real understanding.
Help teachers encourage them with The Comprehension Toolkit professional support system.
For related workshops and seminars, go to pd.heinemann.com
