Fiction and Nonfiction Reading Strategies Lessons and Activities BUNDLE

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO TEACH AND PRACTICE FICTION AND NONFICTION READING SKILLS! These resources include lessons and activities to teach connecting, questioning, inferencing, clarifying, predicting, synthesizing, summarizing, visualizing, evaluating, theme, text features, main idea, defining vocabulary, text structures, and determining importance to your students. It also provides a consistent framework for continuous reinforcement and application of the reading strategy with any text and with all future lessons.

Are you looking for fun and engaging reading lessons that will help your students effectively understand and apply fiction and nonfiction reading skills? You’ve found it!

What is the Comprehension Crew?

Comprehension Crew is a group of characters each representing an essential reading skill. Each character has a profession, gesture, and prop that provide a concrete representation of the reading skill. These characters are used to model and reinforce each skill both in life and in text. The character helps students to understand, remember, and intentionally apply skills as they are reading.

These resources introduce concrete ways for students to interact with the reading strategy through this character representation. This lesson format can be applied to any book over and over again! There are a variety of activities included in this resource for your students to practice each reading strategy.

*download the preview to learn more about the Comprehension Crew program

What is included with this bundle?

• Character Posters & Visual Aids for each skill- variety of options offered
• Character Profiles- includes characters’ profession, prop, gesture, phrase, likes, and how they help readers
• Concrete Activity- for each skill
• Introduction & Modeling Lesson Plans- can be applied to any book
• Teacher Implementation Tips
• Graphic Organizers- wide variety of differentiated options for each skill that can be used with any text *over 375 organizers total!
• Flip Books- multiple options for each skill that can be used with any text *45 flip books total
• Interactive Notebook pages- multiple versions for each skill and practice paragraphs
• Task Cards with Photographs- includes answer key and differentiated answer sheets
• Task Cards with Short Text- includes answer key and differentiated answer sheets
• Practice Passages- differentiated texts and scaffolded response options with answer keys included for each text
• Mentor Text Suggestions – includes a wide variety of picture books and wordless picture books

Who are the other Comprehension Crew characters?

determining importance
main idea
text features
text structure
vocabulary
inferencing
questioning
predicting
summarizing
clarifying
connecting- TRY FOR FREE!
synthesizing
evaluating
visualizing
theme

Teacher Reviews

3rd grade teacher Emily said, “We’ve used this resource as a way to introduce both Visualizing and Making Connections and the students are really enjoying it. They’re engaged in the conversation, in the work they’re doing and in all aspects of learning when using the Comprehension Crew. Everything is included (anchor charts – for the wall AND the students, practice pages at different levels, cue cards). We LOVE it and can’t wait to use it more.”

2nd grade teacher Brooke said, “Absolutely phenomenal resource! Super helpful for executing lessons!”