9 At-Home Reading Strategies to Share with Parents & Families

If your school or district is receiving CARES Act funding, you can use it to meet your students’ literacy needs. Because your students still need books, we are working with educators across the country to create custom solutions that capitalize on their CARES funding and ensure book access and choice for students. 

As teachers, you know that reading together supports children’s literacy development, specifically […]

Deepen Reading Comprehension Skills With A Lesson on Charles Lindbergh’s Transatlantic ‘Flight’

The anniversary of Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight offers an opportunity to encourage students to dream big and explore the concepts of courage and bravery. I use Robert Burleigh’s Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh (Grades K-3, Level R, Lexile AD570) to share a lesson on Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight with my students. This picture […]

By |May 18th, 2016|Comprehension Strategies|0 Comments

Text Sets: Your Answer to Content, Vocabulary and Comprehension

I was buying some books to send to my cousin’s preschoolers this week. She lives 2000 miles away, so I haven’t been able to spend a lot of time with her boys. I asked her if they had any favorite authors or series, and as expected she said they both love Mo Willems. And who […]

By |December 9th, 2015|Comprehension Strategies|1 Comment

Boost Motivation AND Comprehension with Read Alouds: Lori Ozkus Shares 3 Super Ideas That Work

By Lori Oczkus, Booksource Advocate

Students of all ages enjoy being read aloud to. Picture kindergarteners rambunctiously chiming in on each rhyming page of Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw and third graders howling with laughter as their teacher reads the description of Stuart Little’s classroom teaching antics from E.B. White’s classic treasure. Now imagine […]

By |September 9th, 2014|Comprehension Strategies|0 Comments