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Staff Development with The Comprehension Toolkits

Designed for literacy coaches, reading specialists, lead teachers and administrators and framed around five PD structures -- workshops, study groups, demonstration teaching co-teaching and one-to-one coaching -- this resource enhances the practices that shape Toolkit comprehension instructions.
Scaffolding The Comprehension Toolkit for English Language Learners

Designed to help English language learners unpack the concepts, vocabulary and language structures in the Comprehension Toolkits, this resource includes previews and extensions to support ELLs to get the most out of Toolkit comprehension instruction.
Comprehension Times Three

Stephanie Harvey, Debbie Miller, and Cris Tovani invite you to spend three days learning about comprehension theory and practice K-12. Each presenter will share her current thinking about literacy teaching and learning and how to help students turn information into knowledge.

Discussion

Greetings All,

Welcome to the discussion page for StephanieHarvey.com. We are glad you are here! We envision a forum where you can talk freely among yourselves about issues, ideas, questions, and thoughts about literacy teaching and learning, staff development, education policy, and education in general. We will post articles of interest for your pleasure and to stimulate broad based discussion among you. We very much look forward to hearing from you!

Warmly,

Stephanie Harvey

Teaching for Historical Literacy, from Educational Leadership, March 2012

Apr 6 2012

The latest post is from Ed Leadership, March 2012. Anne Goudvis and I contributed this article entitled, Teaching for Historical Literacy. It describes a number of essential literacy practices for teaching history with comprehension at the core. Enjoy!

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Six Reading Habits to Develop in Your First Year at Harvard

Aug 25 2011

I have posted this document on critical reading that Harvard sends to incoming freshman. It has been recently updated at the Harvard site so I have added the link here. Many of you have seen me share it in workshops and we have included it in some of our publications, so I am now making it available here. Enjoy!

http://guides.hcl.harvard.edu/sixreadinghabits

Common Core Standards

Aug 9 2011

Greetings, I have posted two documents that correlate the Comprehension Toolkit lessons and the Primary Toolkit lessons to the informational text Common Core Standards. Feel free to download. Primary teachers click on the K-2 correlations. Intermediate teachers click on the 3-6 correlations. Best, Steph

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Creativity Crisis

Feb 2 2011

Greetings all,

I have posted these two Ted Talks from Sir Ken Robinson that I thought might be of interest to many of you. I am particularly enamoured with the animated speech. HIs notion that our testing frenzy has lead to the creativity crisis gives pause and is worth thinking and talking about.

Best,

Steph

Comprehension Continuum

Nov 17 2010

This is the Comprehension Continuum chart that Stephanie distributed at her recent workshop at the Arizona Reading Association.

Chapter from Comprehension Going Forward

Nov 16 2010

Our first post is my chapter in Comprehension Going Forward: Where We Are and What’s Next, an upcoming book to be published by Heinemann in February of 2011. Edited by Smokey Daniels, this book includes chapters from some of your favorite authors including Anne Goudvis, Ellin Keene, Marjorie Larner, Debbie Miller, Cris Tovani and more. It takes a look at the state of comprehension instruction today and offers a view of where it is headed in the future. Comprehension Going Forward concludes with a reflective, thoughtful and very compelling afterword by P.