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Comprehending Nonfiction 6-8

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Comprehending Nonfiction 6–8


HQT™ Delivers the Professional Support to Improve Nonfiction Reading Instruction

Your Professional Dilemma: The need for including nonfiction reading instruction in middle school classrooms is highlighted by the difficulties students frequently exhibit on standardized tests, such as the PSSA.

Comprehending Nonfiction 6–8 provides tools for teachers to include more nonfiction in their reading programs, which will help students master their content area coursework and the PSSA.

Each package contains:

Pennsylvania HQT Comprehending Nonfiction 6–8 Handbook (1 copy)

Published by: Peoples Education

Description: Provides a pedagogy for implementing and participating in 10 school-based professional development workshops that will help teachers guide students through more in-depth reading in science, social studies, and math.

I Read It, But I Don’t Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers (1 copy)

by Cris Tovani

Published by: Stenhouse Publishers

Description: A literacy reference book that provides support for teachers who want to incorporate comprehension instruction in their curriculum for students who need increasingly sophisticated reading skills.

What HQT Comprehending Nonfiction 6–8 Provides

School-based, teacher-led workshops that address:

  • Understanding characteristics of informational text
  • Examining and refining teaching approaches to using informational text
  • Relating research to classroom practice
  • Evaluating resources to find a balance of nonfiction and narrative texts
  • Fostering communication between home and school
  • Sustaining individual professional development to meet Pennsylvania and national requirements for Highly Qualified Teachers