Book Study: The Reading Comprehension Blueprint

Join me in reading and discovering how to help students make meaning through text as we read and complete activities using Nancy Hennessy's book Z published by Brookes Publishers. Nancy has created a blueprint for explicit instruction of comprehension and in a companion "activities" book provides numerous concrete ways to help students access background knowledge, leverage vocabulary, and use their reasoning skills to analyze and understand text. This session is for all grade levels. Structured Literacy is woven throughout the strategies that Nancy shares. You will need to purchase the following book:

The Reading Comprehension Blueprint, Author Nancy Hennessy, 2021, ISBN 978-1-68125-403-6 available from Brookes Publishing or on Amazon. She also published an Activity Book that goes along with this book, it is not required.

Presenter: Darla Smith, SHESC

Credit: Hours (7.5), PD Points (7.5), College Credit (.5)