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 used
6th grade / How Many Days to America by Eve Bunting (picture book)
7th grade
8th grade

Lesson #2 Notice When You Lose Your Way

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6th 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 used
6th 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 used
6th 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 used
6th 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 used
6th 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 used
6th grade
7th grade / Unsolved Mystery by Jane Yolen
8th grade

Lesson #8 Read to Discover Answers

Toolkit Example Text / Other Texts that can be used
6th 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 used
6th 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 used
6th 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 used
6th 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 used
6th grade
7th grade / Poems “Moon” and “Secrets” Source Book p. 36-37
8th grade

Lesson 13 Crack Open Features

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6th grade
7th grade / “Mexico” Source Book p.38
8th grade / “Understanding Electricity” Source Book p.40

Lesson 14 Read with a Question in Mind

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6th 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 used
6th 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 used
6th 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 used
6th grade / Now Let Me Fly: The Story of a Slave Family by Dolores Johnson
7th grade
8th grade

Lesson 18 Target Key Information

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6th grade
7th grade / “One if by Land, Two if by Sea” Source Book p. 69-71
8th grade

Lesson 19 Determine What to Remember

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6th 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 used
6th 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 used
6th 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 used
6th 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 used
6th 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

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6th grade
7th grade / “The Many Faces of Masks” Source Book p. 80-83
8th grade

Lesson 25 Reread and Rethink

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6th grade
7th grade
8th grade / “Hard at Work” Source Book p.84-85

Lesson 26 Read, Write and Reflect

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6th grade
7th grade
8th grade / “The Comeback Humpbacks” Source Book p. 86-89