The "Comprehension Toolkit: Staff Development with The Comprehension Toolkits" by Stephanie Harvey is designed to enhance educators’ understanding and implementation of effective reading comprehension strategies in the classroom. The book focuses on practical, hands-on approaches that educators can adopt to foster a culture of reading among students. By emphasizing collaborative professional development, it provides insights into using the Comprehension Toolkit series effectively. Through various strategies, teachers are encouraged to engage students in meaningful discussions about texts, enabling them to become thoughtful, independent readers. This resource aims to empower educators to improve literacy instruction and ultimately boost student comprehension skills. [Generated by language model - please report any problems].

There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published in 2011 by Heinemann USA .

Stephanie Harvey is a consultant and staff developer for the Public Education and Business Coalition in Denver, Colorado. She works with educators around the country, leading workshops and conducting classroom demonstrations. Nonfiction Matters and Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding are two of her recent books. Anne Goudvis has been a classroom teacher, staff developer, and adjunct professor of reading and social studies. For the past ten years, she has worked at the Denver-based Public Education and Business Coalition as a staff developer and co-director of the Library Power project, a national initiative to improve teaching and learning in libraries and classrooms. Stephanie Harvey has spent the past thirty years teaching and learning about reading and writing. She received her B. A. from the University of Denver and her M. A. from the University of Colorado. Additionally, Stephanie serves as a consultant to National Geographic School Publishing on the Reading and Writing Workshops, an intermediate-grade comprehension resource for information literacy.