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A ‘Suite’ Holiday Deal on 2025 PD when you reserve before midnight, on 12/31/24!

Purchase any Thoughtful Classroom Online Professional Learning Suite by December 31st and get early and extended access to the suite and all its resources (18 months for the price of 12) plus you’ll receive a bonus of two 60-minute live training and planning sessions for your leadership team.

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THOUGHTFUL CLASSROOM PROFESSIONAL LEARNING SUITES

A Professional Learning Suite

Improving Reading Comprehension

Tools and strategies that make it easy to build students’ reading comprehension skills and deepen their understanding of classroom content

Featuring Dr. Harvey Silver, today’s leading expert on instructional tools and strategies

Reading Comprehension = The Key to Deep Learning

Reading for understanding is the key to deep learning at all grade levels and in every content area. But what does it take to read for understanding? Research shows that strong readers use a battery of strategies before, during, and after reading to make sense of texts. They preview and predict in advance. They monitor their comprehension along the way. And, they reflect on their thinking after reading.

This online professional learning suite will show you how to develop in all students the before-reading, during-reading, and after-reading strategies that the most proficient readers use to understand complex texts.

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What tools and strategies will I find in this suite?

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Before Reading Tools

  • Power Previewing: Teaches students to actively skim and preview texts before reading
  • Mind’s Eye: Taps into the power of visualization to increase motivation and facilitate pre-reading comprehension
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During Reading Tools

  • Single-Sentence Summaries: Encourages active reading and meaning-making by teaching students to stop and summarize regularly
  • Scavenger Hunt: Engages students in a fun and active search for key text features
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After Reading Tools

  • Reading Stances: Uses different lenses or “stances” to help students explore, analyze, and connect personally with texts
  • 4-2-1 Summarize: Makes the processes of finding main ideas and summarizing texts engaging and collaborative
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A Comprehensive Reading Strategy

  • Reading for Meaning: A comprehensive strategy for designing lessons that build students’ before-, during-, and after-reading skills, with a focus on collecting textual evidence
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PLUS:

  • Practical resources to help teachers and PLCs plan, reflect, and analyze student work.

Click above for an advance organizer of the tools and strategies in this suite.

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Testimonial: Sharon Paver-Nepote

“The Thoughtful Classroom Online Suites naturally and easily expanded my ability to deliver tailored and targeted professional development for my teachers. These suites have been a driving force in my school’s improvement process.”

Dr. Sharon Paver-Nepote

Principal,

Wagoner Elementary School • Sauk Village, IL

Testimonial: Mary Belcher: Suites

“Together, the Four Cornerstones and Five Episodes suites provide the professional learning foundation that has made it possible for us to build a large-scale PD initiative focused on deeper learning.”

Mary Belcher

Instructional Lead and Learning Acceleration Specialist,

Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC) • Hazard, KY

Testimonial: Mike McQueen

“By providing teachers the convenience of learning on their own schedule in a format that focuses on practical tools they can use immediately, the suites have helped us ensure each student has access to high-quality instruction within our building.”

Mike McQueen

Principal,

C.W. Davis Middle School • Flowery Branch, GA

Check out all of the

Thoughtful Classroom Professional Learning Suites

Tools and Strategies for Active, In-Depth Learning

TOOLS and Strategies for Active, In-depth Learning
Helping Students Connect Personally with Learning

TOOLS and Strategies for Active, In-depth Learning
Promoting Classroom Inquiry

 

TOOLS and Strategies for Active, In-depth Learning
Improving Reading Comprehension

TOOLS and Strategies for Active, In-depth Learning
Unlocking the Power of Comparative Thinking

TOOLS and Strategies for Active, In-depth Learning
Moving From Note Taking to Note Making

Increasing the Power of Classroom Questioning

Using Formative Assessent to Advance Student Learning 

Using Feedback to Advance Student Learning

Engagement Tools

(curated by Dr. Harvey Silver) 

The Five Episodes of Effective Instruction

The Four Cornerstones of Effective Classrooms