Intensive Reading Comprehension Focus

Funded Aug 31, 2023

I want to thank you for providing me with these fresh resources this year. I am so thankful for the ability to scaffold reading comprehension for my students who were affected so deeply by Covid.

I applied multiple lessons from Serravallo's "Reading Strategies Book 2.0", especially when we read The Kite Runner. I created several charts that rephrased some of her questions and I was able easily differentiate, meeting students where they were by giving them the questions for each standard that seemed appropriate for their current understanding. Tomlinson's "How to Differentiate Instruction in Academically Diverse Classrooms" was also helpful for giving me quick ideas when things were not clicking for students. After reading Cartwright's "Executive Skills and Reading Comprehension," I was able to better rephrase directions for students, and it helped me get to the root of some of the problems that students developed during hybrid learning in 2021. I know these resources will help me design curriculum over the summer as well.”

With gratitude,

Mrs. Patel