Comprehension Toolkit

The Classroom Bundle for The Primary Comprehension Toolkit has everything needed to implement The Primary Comprehension Toolkit for grades K-2 – the strategy and lesson books, the Teacher’s Guide, the short nonfiction texts, and the online resources all included in the Toolkit – plus the 16 engaging books selected by the authors and used in the Toolkit lessons.

Titles include:

The Primary Comprehension Toolkit Trade Book Pack:

• Antarctica by Helen Cowcher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990)
• The Art Lesson by Tomie dePaola (The Putnam & Grosset Group, 1989)
• Biggest, Strongest, Fastest by Steve Jenkins (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995)
• The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry (Harcourt, Inc., 1990)
• Honey, I Love by Eloise Greenfield (HarperCollins Publishers, 1978)
• Insects by Robin Bernard (National Geographic Society, 1999)
• Patches Lost and Found by Steven Kroll (Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books, 2001)
• Recess at 20 Below by Cindy Lou Aillaud (Alaska Northwest Books, 2005)
• Tornado by Catherine Chambers (Heinemann Library, 2002)

Trade books to support Content Literacy lessons:

• Frog or Toad? How Do You Know? (Enslow Publishers, Inc.)
• Make a Difference (National Geographic Ladders series)
• Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Disney Book Group)
• Plants Eat Insects, a How & Why series (Creative Teaching Press)
• Snowflake Bentley (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• The Peace Book (Little Brown and Company)
• What Do You Do When Something Wants to Eat You? (HMH Books for Young Readers)