The Comprehension Strategies Box 2 Ages 7-8

The Comprehension strategies box: Box 2 is suitable for students aged 7–8. The box contains a set of full-colour, differentiated literacy cards designed to support the teaching and learning of nine different comprehension strategies. These well-researched and proven strategies—predicting, visualising, making connections, questioning, clarifying, summarising, determining importance, inferring and synthesising—are compiled to help teachers unlock their students’ reading abilities.

Features:

• 162 cards in the box, colour-coded by strategy.
• Original texts across the cards and teacher guide, allowing students to experience a variety of fiction and non-fiction text types.
• Cater for all while learning the same strategies, with three differentiated reading levels by suggested Lexile® ranges for each strategy, and a placement test provided to ascertain students’ starting point.
• Extensive support through a comprehensive teacher guide and an additional activity book with worksheets for all texts on the cards.

What’s in each box?

• Eighty-one original fiction and non-fiction texts that cover a wide range of genres, on cards and within the teacher guide. These texts are anchored by nine key strategies to entice children of all reading levels.

• An extensive teacher guide containing background information about each strategy; placement tests to ascertain each reader’s ability; modelling and sharing texts, and lessons to help you teach each strategy; and  assessment texts, questions and answers for each strategy.

• An activity book with supporting resource sheets for all the texts on the cards.

• Three colour-coded cards at the front of each box displaying the scope and sequence of all the texts in the box.