ABOUT THE BOOK

House of Comprehension, Three Little Pigs
The House of Comprehension is a complete program that helps English Language Arts teachers in grades 6 through 9 teach their students how to fully understand literature. The book provides step-by-step instructions for teachers on how to use more than 30 activities, and includes printable activity sheets for students. Each activity is aligned to the English Language Arts Common Core Standards, as well as Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Here’s how the book helps build a student’s “House of Comprehension”:

1. The Blueprints
Learn how the goals you need to achieve in order to develop lesson plans that lead to increased student success.

2. The Foundation
Like building a house, learning starts with a strong foundation. Learn what building blocks to give your students to stand on throughout the year.

3. The Framing
No element of literature can stand alone. You will learn how to help students understand how each element depends on others to give meaning, complexity, and a reason for existing.

4. The Finish Work
Like the finish work in a house, literature includes elements that add complexity and dynamism. Learn how to help students intellectually engage in their reading through their interpretations, inferences, and analyses.

5. Decorating
When students have learned to analyze all the elements of literature, they need to know how to connect them all together.
The House of Comprehension offers charts that show the Common Core Standards that are addressed by each activity. Another chart also shows the timing of when to utilize each activity in the study of a piece of literature: during study of the exposition, inciting moment, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, or throughout studying the piece.

Through this practical and flexible program, students learn the importance of every element of literature. They recognize that the story and the elements create a complete whole by working together. Incorporating each of these factors into the study of any piece of literature enables students to explain, orally and in writing, whether the story creates a house of straw, of twigs, or of bricks!

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The House of Comprehension

By Constance D. Casserly

Published by Compass,
an imprint of Brigantine Media

Copyright © 2012
ISBN: 978-1-9384061-7-1

An imprint of Brigantine Media