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Linda Hoyt, demonstrates outstanding comprehension strategies with groups of children, grades 2-5. The strategies are helpful to all readers, but they are especially useful to readers who struggle to construct meaning from text.

In this comprehensive PD Resource Kit, exemplary teachers demonstrate research-based strategies that strengthen young students' understanding of text. Participants will see how to teach six specific comprehension processes that are key to primary students' ongoing literacy growth.

Participants spend several days in master teacher Mary Ellen Ledbetter's classroom and experience unique instructional strategies that cause students to exceed standard expectations for writing success.

Linda Hoyt and other exceptional teachers demonstrate a variety of powerful instructional strategies ideally suited to guided reading lessons in grades 3-6. The teaching strategies featured in this training program focus students' attention on key concepts, important details and underlying themes. They strengthen students' ability to comprehend and enjoy increasingly sophisticated text.

In order for all students to achieve reading competency, they need to be productively engaged with text as much as possible. While intermediate grade teachers meet with small reading groups, the rest of the class can be productively engaged in a variety of independent literacy-building centers and activities aligned with grade-level standards.

How can today's primary teachers most effectively use independent centers to enhance students' literacy growth? In this PD Resource Kit, participants will see a wealth of activities and ideas "in action" within K-3 classrooms. Literacy center expert Linda Holliman explains and demonstrates practical ways to manage center work and greatly increase the value of students' independent literacy time.

Focuses on practical, easy-to-implement intervention strategies for strengthening children’s understanding of what they are reading – all in the highly supportive context of small group instruction, grades K-2.

This two-part PD Resource Kit not only demonstrates a dynamic three-stage instructional framework for the teaching of comprehension processes but also provides viewers with a wealth of strategies to deepen their students' understanding of text. Filmed in intermediate grade classrooms, the program highlights essential components of explicit comprehension instruction and broadens teachers' repertoires of engaging comprehension strategies.

This unique two-part PD Resource Kit takes participants inside several kindergarten, first and second grade classrooms to observe master teacher Jaime Bailey and other experienced, innovative teachers working with young writers using a six trait model. Participants will observe guided writing, practice activities, mini-lessons, independent writing time, and writing conferences specially designed to move young students forward as authors.

Guided reading is a powerful format for moving students beyond emergent-level skills and strategies. In this PD Resource Kit, outstanding guided reading teachers provide models, explanations and practical strategies for expanding developing-level students’ reading independence.