Reading Comprehension
Boost reading comprehension and fluency with engaging content developed to provide students with the tools to become strong and successful readers. These resources will help students understand, respond, and enjoy what they are reading.
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COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES
Focused Reading Intervention
Bridge the gap between struggling and proficient readers.
Provide educators with tailored intervention resources that meet struggling readers where they are and bring them up to grade level.
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Exploring Reading
Guide all students to become strong, independent readers!
This strategic and comprehensive intervention program engages students to discover the true joy of reading while mastering foundational skills.
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Building Connections
Nurture the hearts and minds of students.
Improve student comprehension, cooperation, and communication through a carefully curated collection of books focused on essential life skills and the whole child.
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Untold Stories
Explore diverse perspectives!
Empower students by helping them connect with unique stories that promote representation and diversity. Untold Stories is a meaningful nonfiction series with texts that focus on diverse people and their captivating experiences.
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Fiction Readers
Cultivate a lifelong love of reading
Pique students' curiosity about the world while broadening their reading experiences and enriching their vocabulary.
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Culturally and Authentic Responsive Texts
Empower students to see themselves in the materials they are studying.
Implement culturally and linguistically responsive teaching strategies in the classroom with collections of culturally authentic literature and informational texts curated by expert, Dr. Sharroky Hollie.
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TIME FOR KIDS® Nonfiction Readers
Integrate science, social studies, and mathematics content into language arts instruction with these dynamic nonfiction books.
This series meets students' needs for high-interest informational text by providing nonfiction readers that feature a variety of text structures, domain-specific and academic vocabulary, and complex text aligned to the content areas.
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ACADEMIC LANGUAGE PRODUCTS
Language Power
Empower English language learners to build language proficiency.
This flexible solution helps educators tackle the unique challenges that English language learners face.
CLASSROOM STRATEGY BOOKS
Strategies for Building Text-Dependent Questions
Use effective questions to improve comprehension.
This innovative resource provides teachers with the tools needed to effectively instruct using text-dependent questions.
CLASSROOM STRATEGY BOOKS
Just the Facts: Close Reading and Comprehension of Informational Text
Use informational text to support close reading and comprehension.
This dynamic resource provides a clear explanation of how to use informational text in the classroom and includes practical tips, suggestions, lesson ideas, and digital resources.
CLASSROOM STRATEGY BOOKS
Dive into Close Reading
Explore the what, why, and how of close reading to give students in grades 3-5 the tools they need to be successful.
In this must-have guide, teachers will learn the key elements of a close reading lesson as well as strategies for analyzing and selecting a text and how to support students based on their progress and performance.
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Leveled Text Dependent Question Stems
Increase student comprehension through in-depth examinations of content-area texts.
This comprehensive resource provides teachers with leveled question stems at four different content-areas for students to deeply analyze texts in language arts, mathematics, social studies, and science.
CLASSROOM STRATEGY BOOKS
Close Reading with Paired Texts
Build students' fluency and reading comprehension skills with rich content using paired texts
This resource, authored by Lori Oczkus and Timothy Rasinski, features close-reading strategies, reciprocal teaching, paired fiction and nonfiction texts, text sets, text-dependent questions, and connections to the Daily Five ...
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Great Works
Guide students through purposeful, meaningful explorations of rich, complex literature.
Cultivate a love of reading with some of the most beloved literary works including Newbery Medal and Honor titles, timeless classics, and popular children's, tween, and young adult literature.
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180 Days of Reading
This best-selling series provides 180 days of daily practice with lessons designed to immerse students in each subject, learn key skills, and form good habits.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Making the Complex Simple: Using Rigorous Texts
Students need to access rich, challenging text.
Students need to access rich, challenging text to develop knowledge, build vocabulary, and improve comprehension across the content areas.
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Close Reading to Dissect Text
Rereading text, with different purpose and focus.
Rereading text, with different purpose and focus supports the careful uncovering of the texts that students read.
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Smoothing the Road to Reading with Vocabulary Activities for Early Learners
One of the key elements to reading comprehension is vocabulary.
If you think of all the layers of comprehension like building a road, you need to think of vocabulary building like filling the potholes in the road.
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Building Knowledge and Vocabulary through Rich Informational Text
The importance of student reading grade-level complex text.
Informational text provides unique challenges and a plethora of advantages in building knowledge and vocabulary to support grade-level reading.
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Pairing Fiction and Nonfiction Text to Support Deep Thinking
Expose students to literary and informational texts.
In this professional development, teachers will deepen their understanding of instructional practices to support reading rich texts by actively learning how to use both literary and informational texts as the means to incorporate practical yet powerful literacy strategies.
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Untold Stories: Using Powerful Texts to Build Literacy Skills
Short texts that focus on ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Educators will explore how to use short texts to provide powerful teaching opportunities that support a variety of instructional needs, content areas, and reading levels and much more.
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Virtual Product Launches are specially designed to quickly train teachers.
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Short Texts with Big Impact
Unique benefits of short texts
In this webinar, you will discover the value of short texts in building literacy, explore how to build and scaffold text-dependent questions and tasks, and much more.