TOOLKIT MATERIALS BREAKDOWN BY GRADE LEVEL
Although the Comprehension Toolkit lessons and strategies can be covered at each grade level, the chart below attempts to divide the resources (including picture books and materials in the Source Book) by grade level. Every attempt was made to distribute materials equally among the three grade levels and to allocate specific items based on possible tie-ins with each grade-level’s social studies curriculum.
#1 Monitoring Comprehension
Lesson #1 Follow Your Inner Conversation
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade / How Many Days to America by Eve Bunting (picture book)
7th grade
8th grade
Lesson #2 Notice When You Lose Your Way
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade / “Stealing Beauty” Source Book p.4
7th grade
8th grade
Lesson #3 Read, Write, and Talk
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade / “Tigers Roar Back” Source Book p. 15
7th grade / Testing, Testing” Source Book p.16
8th grade / “Girl’s Education: UNICEF and You” Source Book p.12-13
#2 Activate and Connect
Lesson #4 Follow the Text Signposts
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade / Social Studies book
7th grade / Social Studies book
8th grade / Lightning by Steven Kramer
Lesson #5 Merge Your Thinking with New Learning
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade / Social Studies book
7th grade / Social Studies book
8th grade / Lightning by Steven Kramer
Lesson #6 Connect the New to the Known
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade
7th grade / “Summer of the Shark” Source Book p. 18
8th grade
#3 Ask Questions
Lesson #7 Question the Text
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade
7th grade / Unsolved Mystery by Jane Yolen
8th grade
Lesson #8 Read to Discover Answers
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade / “The Eagle Has Landed” Source Book p.24
7th grade
8th grade
Lesson 9 Ask Questions to Expand Thinking
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade / The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
7th grade
8th grade
#4 Infer Meaning
Lesson 10 Infer the Meaning of Unfamiliar Words
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade / “Titanic” Source Book p. 20-122
7th grade
8th grade
Lesson 11 Infer With Text Clues
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade / “Titanic” Source Book p. 32-35
7th grade
8th grade
Lesson 12 Tackle the Meaning of Language
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade
7th grade / Poems “Moon” and “Secrets” Source Book p. 36-37
8th grade
Lesson 13 Crack Open Features
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade
7th grade / “Mexico” Source Book p.38
8th grade / “Understanding Electricity” Source Book p.40
Lesson 14 Read with a Question in Mind
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade
7th grade
8th grade / The Top of the World: Climbing Mt. Everest by Steve Jenkins
Lesson 15 Wrap Your Mind Around the Big Ideas (Theme)
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade
7th grade
8th grade / Cheyenne Again by Eve Bunting
#5 Determine Importance
Lesson 16 Spotlight New Thinking
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade / “At home in the Arctic” Source Book p.42
7th grade
8th grade
Lesson 17 Record Important Ideas
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade / Now Let Me Fly: The Story of a Slave Family by Dolores Johnson
7th grade
8th grade
Lesson 18 Target Key Information
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade
7th grade / “One if by Land, Two if by Sea” Source Book p. 69-71
8th grade
Lesson 19 Determine What to Remember
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade
7th grade / “One if by Land, Two if by Sea” Source Book p. 69-71
8th grade
Lesson 20 Distinguish Your Thinking from the Author’s
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade / “Western Round-up” Source Book p.55
7th grade / “Turn it Off” Source Book p.56
8th grade / “Can Kids Stop Kids from Smoking” Source Book p. 54
Lesson 21 Construct Main Ideas from Supporting Details
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade
7th grade
8th grade / “Big Talkers” Source Book p.58
#6 Summarize and Synthesize
Lesson 22 Read, Think, and React
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade
7th grade / “The Maya” Source Book p. 64-73
8th grade
Lesson 23 Think Beyond the Text
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade / “Garana’s Story: A Day in the life…” Source Book p. 74-79
7th grade
8th grade
Lesson 24 Read to Get the Gist
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade
7th grade / “The Many Faces of Masks” Source Book p. 80-83
8th grade
Lesson 25 Reread and Rethink
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade
7th grade
8th grade / “Hard at Work” Source Book p.84-85
Lesson 26 Read, Write and Reflect
Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used6th grade
7th grade
8th grade / “The Comeback Humpbacks” Source Book p. 86-89