Whole Book Comprehension

How Whole Book Comprehension Supports Readers:

• Builds the mental stamina fourth graders need to tackle longer texts
• Develops inferential comprehension, text-based discussion, and writing about reading skills in grade-level fiction and nonfiction
• Grows vocabulary
• Supports knowledge-building
• Provides targeted responsive instruction with integrated assessment tools
• Includes a copy of The Reading Strategies Book 2.0, which provides 300+ transferrable research-based strategies for building and transferring comprehension skills

Use it Flexibly Across Your Day and Year:

• In your ELA block: whole-class, small-group explicit instruction in grade-level whole books
• As a meaningful independent activity and deep comprehension assessment
• In science and social studies: with titles that connect to your units
• In WIN time, intervention, or enrichment: explicit instruction with a complete text
• As a complete summer school program 

Ready-To-Use

With 50 ready-to-use lesson plans, rubrics, and printable materials, plus a bank of research-based strategies and a streamlined, practical teacher's guide.

Using eight standards- and grade-level-aligned authentic fiction and nonfiction books, these tools help you provide:

• Explicit strategy instruction
• Vocabulary- and knowledge-building opportunities
• Rich writing about reading and discussion opportunities