Teachers: Plan an engaging reading workshop designed for parents and children in elementary grades. This workshop will teach parents strategies to help their child with comprehension using a Reader’s Toolkit and custom strategy sticky notes. Each parent receives a Reader’s Toolkit, sticky notes, and a step-by-step Parent Guide. A demonstration parent and child DVD using the Reader’s Toolkit is also available.
Reading Comprehension Family Workshop (Outline for trainers)
Partial Parent Guide
School discounts available. Call or email: 1-800-407-3104
Parents: All good readers use strategies to comprehend. Help your child learn these strategies and comprehend with a Reader’s Toolkit and a parent guide for teaching comprehension strategies
(View partial Parent Guide).
Kit includes a step-by-step guide to use with any book, a Reader’s Toolkit and custom strategy sticky notes. A demonstration parent and child DVD using the Reader’s Toolkit is also available.
Click here to purchase a Parent Guide and Reader’s Toolkit
The preparation of teachers to deliver strategy instruction is ultimately linked to student achievement. Reader’s Toolkit consultants are available for professional development in the implementation of strategy instruction for reading comprehension. Trainings can be customized to build on teacher’s existing knowledge in explicit strategy instruction. Listed below are two of the most popular workshops. Contact for additional information.
“Get Into Their Heads” Using sticky note responses to differentiate and drive strategy comprehension instruction in Read Aloud, Guided Reading, Independent Reading and Literature Circles with Fiction and Non Fiction.
“I read it but I can’t remember it.” Learn powerful Linguistic (words) and Nonlinguistic (imagery) reading comprehension strategies to significantly build background knowledge and long term memory.