Teachers review The Comprehension strategies box in 2022

Tuesday 21 June 2022
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We’re back with another round of reviews! More teachers have used (and loved) The Comprehension strategies box and wanted to share their thoughts to help other educators.

First, we’ll go through what exactly The Comprehension strategies box is and how to use it—for those of you who are new or anyone who needs a refresher. Once you’re up to speed, check out some Australian teachers’ experiences with this bestselling box!

**What is The Comprehension strategies box?**

The Comprehension strategies box is a six-box series designed to teach the following nine comprehension strategies to children at all levels of reading ability:

Predicting
Visualising
Making connections
Questioning
Clarifying
Summarising
Determining importance
Inferring
Synthesising

This series has a strong focus on differentiation, with different levels of reading comprehension texts for each strategy. It is graded according to Lexile^® levels, so you can perfectly match each student to a text appropriate to their reading level. The text cards are double sided, with two texts for each of the three reading levels—level 1 being the easiest and level 3 the hardest.

What’s in the box?

162 cards: 9 strategies x 3 double-sided text cards x 6 duplicate copies = a total of 54 original texts over 27 cards!
Teacher guide
Activity book

How do I use it?

**What's everyone been saying about The Comprehension strategies box?**

Thanks so much to the following teachers for sharing their experiences—check out their Instagrams for more great teaching ideas.

Taylah, Year 2 teacher

@teaching.with.miss.d

‘This is The Comprehension strategies box and it is absolutely amazing! It will help me teach a range of reading comprehension skills such as predicting, visualising, making connections, questioning, clarifying, summarising, determining importance, inferring and synthesising.

For each of the comprehension strategies there are six different texts available—two below level, two at level and two above level, so perfect for differentiation! There are six copies of each text so it is perfect for guided reading groups.

It comes with an activity book and a teacher guide so there are lots of activities that you can photocopy for your students and then there is a whole book of information on how to model and teach the strategies as well. They are all colour coded in different colours for the different comprehension strategies and it is really easy to use.’

Watch Taylah’s in-depth review by clicking on the image below:

Cass, Year 3 teacher

@teachingwithcass
'I was lucky enough to be gifted a box last year which I used religiously with my 1s and I didn’t know how I’d plan my reading groups this year without it—so I got another one!
This box is a one-stop shop for your guided reading/comprehension needs ...'

Juliet, Year 2 teacher

@teachingwjuliet

‘This has now found a home in my teacher guided area of the room and my kids have so quickly adapted to these activities and LOVE the range of stories inside!!

This box includes teaching opportunities for all comprehension strategies relevant to your year level. Inside are fancy text-cards for small groups, and an activity and teacher booklet to guide you explicitly.'