Teaching Comprehension Shouldn’t Feel This Complicated.
Your students can read the words. So why aren’t they understanding?
You’re teaching the strategies, so why aren’t they applying them?
The problem isn’t the strategies themselves; it’s that students don’t know when to use and apply them.
In this training, we share how to bring the comprehension strategies together into a repeatable routine, so students actually apply them.
You’re not alone if you’ve been trying to teach all the things:
Main idea
Compare and contrast
Author’s purpose
Text structure
Cause and effect
Modeling the strategies, giving students practice, asking questions.
And then…
Students still don’t know what to do when they come to a new text.
They may try to answer the questions, but they aren’t actually thinking through the reading process. Here’s the thing:
Comprehension isn’t a list of strategies; it’s a thinking routine.
And when students don’t have a routine, everything feels disconnected.
This Spotlight PD shows you how to teach comprehension as a repeatable before–during–after routine that students can use with any text.
Not another worksheet. Not another isolated strategy lesson.
It’s a structure students can internalize.
So instead of wondering:
“Is this a main idea lesson?”
“Should I use the compare/contrast organizer?”
“Which strategy fits here?”
Your students learn:
How to prepare their brain before reading instead of jumping in blindly
How to monitor meaning while they read instead of waiting for questions
How to organize their thinking after reading instead of forgetting everything
What This Does For You
➡️ You stop trying to “cover” every comprehension skill
➡️ You stop guessing which strategy to teach next
➡️ You stop watching students decode fluently, but miss the meaning
Instead of teaching isolated skills…
You teach a structure that holds them together.
What This Solves for Students
➡️ The “I don’t know what to do” shutdown
➡️ Surface-level reading
➡️ Forgetting what they just read
➡️ Depending on teacher-led questioning
Instead, they develop:
A predictable framework. A thinking roadmap. A way to approach any text with purpose.
What’s Included:
1-Hour On-Demand Video Training
Printable Guided Comprehension Routine
Comprehension Graphic Organizers
Mini Companion for Small Groups or Intervention
1-Hour PD Certificate
Lifetime Access
Everything you need to start implementing immediately.
Finally, A Way to Connect Those Graphic Organizers to Real Thinking
👆 You’ll get access to our graphic organizers AND a way to connect them to the thinking process!
We love graphic organizers. You’ll get ours.
But the organizer isn’t the strategy.
The routine is.
Who This Is For:
This training is for educators who are thinking:
“My students can read the words… but they don’t really understand.”
“I’m teaching the standards, but it still feels disconnected.”
“There has to be a simpler way to teach
this.”
It’s perfect for:
Reading interventionists
Special education teachers
Classroom teachers (elementary through secondary)
Literacy coaches
Tutors and specialists
If you work with students who can decode but struggle to explain, summarize, or retain what they read, this training is for you.
Take One Hour. Leave With a Routine You’ll Use Forever.
For $35, you’ll walk away with a repeatable comprehension structure you can use tomorrow.
Frequently Asked Questions
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You’ll get instant access after purchase — watch anytime from your dashboard.
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After your one-time purchase, you’ll have access to the training forever (watch anytime).
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A professional development certificate is automatically emailed to you upon completion of a short quiz.
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On-demand training courses are for individual use only. For school-wide access, please contact us for group pricing.
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Given the digital nature of the training and materials, refunds are not offered for this training. But we are confident you’ll love it 😉
