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Do your students have great conversations that make it seem like they really understand and then when given a multiple choice “test question” totally bomb? Have you ever wondered why? In this week’s post An Epidemic of Poor Comprehension, Kim begins to dissect the problem but be forewarned, the investigation has just begun. Be sure to check out our blog and share your ideas for how to combat this overwhelming issue in reading.
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Yearly Memberships to the Literacy Builders store are now available. For just $49.00, you are free to download all digital files for one year! And if you purchase between now and June 30, 2012, your membership won't expire until August 30th! Check out our Annual Membership page today!FREE FOR NOW:
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Stepping Up Our Thinking With Post-its
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HOLIDAY SALE -- EXTENDED!
Until January 31st, take 50% off EVERYTHING in the store. Just use Coupon Code: Holiday2011
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Until January 31st, take 50% off EVERYTHING in the store. Just use Coupon Code: Holiday2011
Visit the Store to take advantage
At Literacy Builders, our “shelves” are stock-piled with all kinds of lessons designed to support you as you work to implement high quality reading and writing instruction. We want you to browse our offerings often for those lessons that meet your most immediate needs in teaching literacy. However, we know that paying for everything you want can be a drag so that is why we are rolling out our Free for Now program!
Here’s how it works:
Throughout the course of each month, we will feature no fewer than four different items on Free for Now. Sometimes we will offer something different five days in a row, sometimes we may only change it once a week. Sometimes we will offer a single lesson plan, sometimes, we will offer our bestselling E-Paks that contain 15 or more lessons! Sometimes the items will stay up for an hour or two, sometimes the items will stay up for a week, and some items will always be available.
How do you make sure you get the freebies you want?
Stay in touch! Every time we post something new to our store, we will place updates on our Facebook page and our website homepage. Check back often and never miss the things that interest you most!
Check out the review of our latest reads:
Our latest read, Igniting a Passion for Reading answers all of those questions that we ask about what to do about the students in our classrooms that can read but won’t. Be sure to stop by our Professional Review Page and check out our full review of Igniting A Passion for Reading. 
Are you ready to take your understanding of what children need in order to become more proficient readers to the next level? Then Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey’s Background Knowledge: The Missing Piece of the Comprehension Puzzle might be the book you are looking for. For further insight, be sure to visit our professional review page!
Is your school preparing to revise the current curriculum to align with the Common Core Standards? Are you spearheading a professional development initiative to help teachers reflect on their instructional practices and make “research-based” changes to their teaching repertoire? Then Barbara M. Taylor’s book Catching Schools is a must read for you! Filled with data and resources to drive all phases of conversation about school-wide literacy reform, this book offers outstanding insight and guidance for administrators, literacy leaders, and professional developers. Be sure to check out our full review!
When you talk to your students about things like visualization or activating schema, do your students look at you like you are speaking a foreign language? The problem could be that your students cannot yet grasp onto the lofty concepts entailed in making meaning when we read. Tanny McGregor’s Comprehension Connections aims to make these concepts more accessible by making them more concrete. Chocked full of practical, easy-to-implement lessons to try with your classroom, this book promises to become every teachers’ companion to great comprehension instruction. Be sure to read our full review today!
Have you ever wished you could hang out at a literacy jam session eavesdropping as the best minds in comprehension instruction shared their insights and best ideas for teaching children how to make meaning? While most of us don’t have entrée to such opportunities, Comprehension Going Forward edited by Harvey Daniels does the next best thing—it brings their thinking to us. If you’re interested in getting a historical perspective about where comprehension has been, is, and will head in the future, this book might be just what you’re looking for. Be sure to click on our book review tab for a complete overview of this new addition to the comprehension collection.
