TOOLKIT LESSON TEKS ALIGNMENT TO THE COMPREHENSION TOOLKIT 3rd grade 4th grade 5th grade BOOK 1- MONITOR COMPREHENSION- “When readers monitor their comprehension, they keep track of their thinking. They listen to the voice in their head that speaks to them as they read. They notice when the text makes sense or when it doesn’t. We teach readers to “fix up” their comprehension by using a variety of strategies including stopping to refocus thinking, rereading, and reading on. All of the comprehension instruction suggested in the Toolkit helps readers to monitor and use strategies to maintain understanding and repair comprehension when it breaks down.” L 1- Follow your Inner Conversation L2- Notice When you Lose Your Way L3- Read, Write and Talk F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (E) summarize information in text, maintaining meaning and logical order F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (E) summarize information in text, maintaining meaning and logical order F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (E) summarize and paraphrase texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across texts F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) BOOK 2- ACTIVATE & CONNECT- “The background knowledge we bring to our reading colors every aspect of our learning and understanding. Whether we are questioning, inferring, or synthesizing, our background knowledge is the foundation of our thinking. We simply can’t understand what we read without thinking about what we already know. Readers must connect the new to the known. Sometimes, however, our prior knowledge consists of misconceptions that get in the way of new learning. So we have to prepare kids not only to think about what they already know but also to change their thinking when they encounter new and more information.” L4- Follow the Text Signposts L5- Merge Your Thinking with New Learning L6- Connect the New to the Known F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) BOOK 3- ASK QUESTIONS-“Questions are at the heart of teaching and learning. They open the doors to understanding the world. Posing questions allows us to seek out information, solve problems, and extend our understanding. As we try to answer our questions, we discover new information and gain new knowledge. The best questions spark more questions and spur further research and inquiry. When we read nonfiction, our questions abound. Our questions help us to clarify confusion when we meet unfamiliar information, concepts, and vocabulary. They propel us to read on and do further research. Questions nudge curious minds to investigate.” L7- Question the Text F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive and evaluative questions of text F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive and evaluative questions of text L8- Read to Discover Answers F19 (A) establish purposes for F19 (A) establish purposes for F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive, evaluative and universal questions of text F19 (A) establish purposes for L9- Ask Question to Expand Thinking reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive and evaluative questions of text (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive and evaluative questions of text (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive and evaluative questions of text F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive and evaluative questions of text reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive, evaluative and universal questions of text (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive, evaluative and universal questions of text BOOK 4- INFER MEANING-“Inferring is the bedrock of understanding. Inferring involves drawing a conclusion or making an interpretation that is not explicitly stated in the text. Typically, skillful writers do not spill information onto the page all at once for everyone to see. They leak the information slowly, one idea at a time, inviting the reader to make reasonable inferences. Inferential thinking allows readers to make predictions, surface themes, and draw conclusions. Readers also visualize to infer meaning. When readers visualize they infer from the pictures in their mind. In nonfiction reading, as one our students characterized it, those pictures look more like a slide show or a newscast than a movie. Active nonfiction readers get a freeze frame in their minds of a spewing volcano and then suddenly burst with dozens of questions and reactions. Visualizing brings joy and excitement to reading. When reading nonfiction, readers may have to crack open language word by word to get at the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary and concepts. Often answers to questions must be inferred.” L10- Infer the Meaning of Unfamiliar Words F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding L11- Infer With Text Clues F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive and evaluative questions of text (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive and evaluative questions of text (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding L12- Tackle the Meaning of Language F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive and evaluative questions of text (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding (E) summarize information in text, maintaining meaning, and logical order F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive and evaluative questions of text (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding (E) summarize information in text, maintaining meaning, and logical order L13- Crack Open Features F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive, evaluative and universal questions of text (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive, evaluative and universal questions of text (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding (E) summarize and paraphrase texts in ways to maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across texts F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using L14- Read With a Question in Mind L15- Wrap Your Mind Around the Bid Ideas background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive and evaluative questions of text (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive and evaluative questions of text (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive, evaluative and universal questions of text (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding BOOK 5- DETERMINE IMPORTANCE-“What we determine be important in text depends on our purpose for reading it. When we read nonfiction, we are reading to learn and remember information. We can’t possibly remember every isolated fact, nor would we. We need to focus on important information and merge it with what we already know to expand our understanding of a topic. We sort and sift rich details from important information to answer questions and arrive at main ideas. We identify details that support larger concepts. We teach kids a way to sue information to develop a line of thinking as they read, surfacing and focusing their attention on important ideas in the text.” L16- Spotlight New Thinking F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive and evaluative questions of text (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive and evaluative questions of text (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive, evaluative and universal questions of text (C) monitor and adjust background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding L17- Record Important Ideas F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive and evaluative questions of text (E) summarize information in text, maintaining meaning, and logical order F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive and evaluative questions of text (E) summarize information in text, maintaining meaning, and logical order L18- Target Key Information F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (E) summarize information in text, maintaining meaning, and logical order F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (E) summarize information in text, maintaining meaning, and logical order L19- Determine What To Remember F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (E) summarize information in text, maintaining meaning, and logical order F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (E) summarize information in text, maintaining meaning, and logical order comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive, evaluative and universal questions of text (E) summarize and paraphrase texts in ways to maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across texts F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (E) summarize and paraphrase texts in ways to maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across texts F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (E) summarize and paraphrase texts in ways to maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across texts L20- Distinguish What to Remember F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (E) summarize information in text, maintaining meaning, and logical order F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (E) summarize information in text, maintaining meaning, and logical order L21- Construct Main Ideas from Supporting Details F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding (E) summarize information in text, maintaining meaning, and logical order F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding (E) summarize information in text, maintaining meaning, and logical order F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (E) summarize and paraphrase texts in ways to maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across texts F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding (E) summarize and paraphrase texts in ways to maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across texts BOOK 6- SUMMARIZE & SYNTHESIZE-“Synthesizing information nudges readers to see the bigger picture as they read. It’s not enough for readers to simply recall or restate the facts. Thoughtful readers integrate the new information with their existing knowledge to come to a more complete understanding of the text and even the subject. As readers encounter new information, their thinking evolves. They merge the new information with what they already know and construct meaning as they go. As they distill nonfiction into a few important ideas, the may develop a new perspective or an original insight.” L22- Read, Think, and React F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (E) summarize information in text, maintaining meaning, and logical order F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (E) summarize information in text, maintaining meaning, and logical order F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (E) summarize and paraphrase texts in ways to maintain meaning and logical order within a text and L23- Think Beyond the Text L24- Read to Get the Gist L25- Reread and Rethink F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive and evaluative questions of text (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding (F) make connections (e.g., thematic links, author analysis) between literary and informational texts with similar ideas and provide textual evidence. F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (E) summarize information in text, maintaining meaning, and logical order F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (B) ask literal, interpretive and evaluative questions of text (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding (F) make connections (e.g., thematic links, author analysis) between literary and informational texts with similar ideas and provide textual evidence. F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (E) summarize information in text, maintaining meaning, and logical order F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) across texts F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (B) ask literal, interpretive, evaluative and universal questions of text (D) make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding (F) make connections (e.g., thematic links, author analysis) between and across multiple texts of various genres and provide textual evidence F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (E) summarize and paraphrase texts in ways to maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across texts F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) L26- Read, Write, and Reflect F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (E) summarize information in text, maintaining meaning, and logical order F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (E) summarize information in text, maintaining meaning, and logical order F19 (A) establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired outcome to enhance comprehension (C) monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions) (E) summarize and paraphrase texts in ways to maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across texts