Teacher Talk

The goal of the Toolkit series is to help you watch thoughtful, reflective teaching in ways that enable you to extrapolate guidelines and methods, so that on another day you'll feel ready to invent your own teaching. To this end, Teacher Talk introduces you to educators who have adapted the Toolkit to meet the demands of their classroom.

Below teachers describe how they have revised, learned from, and adapted The Comprehension Toolkit.

Emily Kissner, fourth grade teacher,
Bendersville Elementary School, Bendersville, PA

1. How has The Comprehension Toolkit impacted your classroom?
2. How have you adapted Toolkit lessons for different reading levels?
3. What do you wish you knew before you began teaching the Toolkit lessons?
4. What would you tell teachers who are new to The Comprehension Toolkit?