Designed for use in teaching Tier 2 or 3 small groups of students who have been identified as struggling to comprehend even though their decoding skills are strong.
7 comprehension processes are taught in the following sequence:

• Connecting 
• Questioning
• Predicting
• Imaging
• Inferring
• Determining Importance
• Synthesizing

Each strategy is practiced with both fiction and nonfiction text
3 sets of spiral lessons show students how to integrate the processes together
Explicit modeling cycle of “I Do, We Do, You Do”

The kit contains:

• Full-color, spiral-bound Teacher’s Guide of over 275 pages
• 28 magnetic color-coded tokens for teachers to place on text and mats during think-alouds
• 700 Color-coded translucent tokens for students to place on text and mats
• 10 plastic bags with handles to store lessons

Other materials available for download include:

• 44 passages (23 literary and 21 informational)
• 18 mats (12 for Determining Importance plus one for each of the other 6 processes)
• Rubrics and sheets to record progress-monitoring student data.