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

Why has comprehension instruction become so complex?

Sharon Taberski 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 effective practices that illustrate amazing ways to organize instructional and independent reading for kids including:

letter and sound searches that improve students' word accuracy and fluency

companion books bags that develop their confidence and comprehension

strategy sheets that make children's thinking about text concrete

a Putting Our Strategies to Work Board that enables students to reflect on and discuss the meta-cognitive strategies they're using

Idea Books and Ta-da Publishing Books that help children get inside the reading and writing process and see how each feeds the other.

Book study groups and professional learning communities click here to save 15% when you order 15 copies of Comprehension from the Ground Up-save $56.25!
PLUS Two Options for dynamic DVD-based staff development:

• for your workshop or PLC, the Lessons from the Ground Up DVD 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. Click here to save $66.75 when you order the DVD plus 10 copies of Comprehension from the Ground Up!
• It's All About Comprehension is a long-term staff development initiative with 3 DVDs (7 hours) of whole-class, small-group, and one-on-one instruction from Sharon.