Many school districts mistakenly equate strategy instruction with comprehension instruction. They focus too early and too much on the metacognitive strategies, often at the exclusion of other critical aspects of literacy. My goal here is to simplify the way we teach reading and make it more effective Introducing a simple, effective, and integrated approach to teaching comprehension from the renowned reading instruction expert and author Sharon Taberski.
Helping children acquire cognitive strategies is only one part of top-notch reading instruction. And on her staff development DVDIt's ALL About Comprehension, Sharon Taberski shares her latest thinking on how to re-envision comprehension instruction.
Taberski (author of On Solid Ground and Comprehension from the Ground Up) guides students in whole-class, small-group, and one-on-one settings, clearly modeling highly effective ways to develop comprehension throughout the literacy block. She shows how to provide explicit support through five key strands: 
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<li>Accurate Fluent Reading </li>
<li>Background Knowledge </li>
<li>Oral Language and Vocabulary </li>
<li>Reading-Writing Connections </li>
<li>Repertoire of Strategies </li>
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For each strand, It's ALL About Comprehension includes three sections that can be used with any or all of the other strands over the course of staff-development sessions:
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<li>Overview explains how a particular strand relates to comprehension and video snippets demonstrate how a teacher can call upon it.</li>
<li>Featured Conference shows Sharon working directly with a child, using the strand to help the child become a better reader</li>
<li>Lessons in Action presents footage of Sharon leading several strand-related lessons and conferences to create a larger instructional framework.</li>
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In addition, the 152-page Facilitator's Comprehensive Guide provides tools for delivering effective staff development sessions. It includes pacing calendars for both shorter and longer term PD, session-planning sheets, recommended readings, and helpful reproducibles such as viewing/reflection sheets, graphics to help teachers plan lessons, action sheets to do with colleagues, and take-away explanations of key concepts and ideas shown on the DVD.
These videos document Sharon 's ongoing work in the classrooms of masterful teachers Deirdre Cerulli and Millie Velazquez and provide examples of authentic teacher-student interactions that viewers can adapt for their teaching. Let Sharon Taberski share the experience and joy that's made her one of the field's most treasured voices on early reading instruction. Use It's ALL About Comprehension to create an outstanding, sustained, multi-session professional development initiative

It's All About Comprehension: Teaching K-3 Readers from the Ground Up

Education & Teaching

Taberski, Sharon

Kurstedt, Rosanne

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

In this era of YouTube and quick-clock information gathering, novice and veteran teachers benefit from succinct, visual 'show me to teach me' professional development. To answer this need, I developed Lessons from the Ground Up. Sharon Taberski With the same clarity and accessibility as the classic On Solid Ground and Comprehension from the Ground Up, Sharon Taberski shares her latest thinking on how to use a variety of reading, writing, and talking experiences to help young students grow to be fluent readers. 105-minutes of succinct video clips of whole-class lessons, small-group instruction, and one-on-one conferences help teachers see that improving student's comprehension happens in the course of excellent reading and writing instruction and that strategy instruction should play a supporting role-not a starring role-in children's reading development. To help facilitate staff-development sessions, the 64-page facilitator's guide contains: <ul>
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Session Plans that provide an organizing structure for your work with teachers divided into three parts: Access Knowledge, Develop Knowledge, and Synthesize Knowledge. </li> <li>
Strand Overview handouts highlight key points of the strand and are more detailed than video overviews. </li> <li>
Lesson in Action handouts provide a brief description of the lesson, the lesson focus, and highlight key student reading behaviors and teaching strategies. </li> <li>
Noticing, Thinking, and Wondering handouts focus teachers' video-viewing experience.</li> </ul>

Lessons from the Ground Up (DVD): Cultivating Comprehension in K-3 Readers

Simpler, more effective K-3 comprehension instruction for your preservice teachers  College edition includes:  copy of Comprehension from the Ground Up including CD-ROM of 32 reproducibles and study guide Student's Guide (40pp) six month's access to 120 minutes of classroom instructional video PDF of Instructor's Guide (19pp)  Sharon Taberski shares the how-tos needed to sustain a literacy block that engages children in authentic reading and writing practices including:  dozens of activities and foundational practices grade-appropriate schedules and favorite book lists to fill the school day with rich, engaging literary practices management ideas and sample lessons to teach K-3 reading in a simplified, streamlined way innovative tips and suggestions from a master teacher.

Comprehension from the Ground Up College Edition: Simplified, Sensible Instruction for the K-3 Reading Workshop

Picture books are perfect, mini-models of effective writing! With their sterling language and succinct stories, picture books serve as excellent examples of how literary elements work in narrative writing. Dozens of lessons show how to use them to teach mood, voice, character traits, theme, and other devices. Kids are eager to apply what they've discovered to their own writing, and the results are amazing. Includes lessons from all stages of the writing process for both fiction and memoir writing plus lists of recommended books. For use with Grades 4-8.

Teaching Writing With Picture Books as Models: Lessons and Strategies For Using the Power of Picture Books to Teach the Elements Of Great Writing in The Upper Grades

Koutras, Maria

Scholastic Professional Books

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It's All About Comprehension: Teaching K-3 Readers from the Ground Up

Lessons from the Ground Up (DVD): Cultivating Comprehension in K-3 Readers

Comprehension from the Ground Up College Edition: Simplified, Sensible Instruction for the K-3 Reading Workshop

Teaching Writing With Picture Books as Models: Lessons and Strategies For Using the Power of Picture Books to Teach the Elements Of Great Writing in The Upper Grades