Nonfiction Reading Strategies Lessons and Activities Comprehension Crew BUNDLE

Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to help your students effectively understand and apply informational reading skills? You’ve found it! These resources include everything you need to introduce and teach text features, main idea, defining vocabulary, text structures, and determining importance to your students. It provides a consistent framework to use for any reading lesson and application of the nonfiction reading strategy with any text!

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 non- fiction 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 100 organizers total!
• Flip Books– multiple options for each skill that can be used with any text *14 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?

Non-fiction reading skills:

• determining importance
• main idea
• text features
• text structure
• vocabulary

Fiction reading skills:

• inferencing
• questioning
• predicting
• summarizing
• clarifying
• connecting– TRY FOR FREE!
• synthesizing
• evaluating
• visualizing
• theme

Teacher Reviews

3rd Grade Teacher said, “My students are OBSESSED with the comprehension crew. I started using them this year, and have never had students react so strongly to having a character help them learn the reading skill. I also love that there are motions that match for them. This was a genius idea and I am so glad I found it. “