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Two Essentials for Preparing Effective Comprehension Instruction
October 29, 2024
*Today’s post has been adapted from The Reading Comprehension Blueprint by Nancy Hennessy. Comprehension instruction potentially requires a great deal of preparation before you deliver it to your students. If…
5 Tools and Tips for Building Sentence Comprehension
September 17, 2024
*Today’s guest post is by Nancy Hennessy & Julia Salamone, authors of The Reading Comprehension Blueprint Activity Book. Sentences have been described as the “worker bees” that eventually add up…
5 Vocabulary Tools for Building Deep Understanding of Word Meaning
June 11, 2024
Today we’re excited to welcome two of our expert authors to the Brookes blog: Nancy Hennessy and Julia Salamone, co-authors of The Reading Comprehension Blueprint Activity Book. The companion to…
Strengthening Reading Comprehension: New Activity Book & FREE Sample Lesson!
February 15, 2024
If you’re already using Nancy Hennessy’s bestselling Reading Comprehension Blueprint book—or if you’re a K-8 educator looking for ways to strengthen students’ comprehension skills—here’s an exciting new resource to check…
How to Use Questioning to Boost Reading Comprehension
November 2, 2023
Comprehension is key to your students’ reading success—if they can’t make meaning from the stories and texts they read, they’ll have difficulty with reading both inside and outside the classroom.…