# Strengthening Reading Comprehension: New Activity Book & FREE Sample Lesson!

February 15, 2024

If you’re already using Nancy Hennessy’s bestselling [**Reading Comprehension Blueprint**](https://products.brookespublishing.com/The-Reading-Comprehension-Blueprint-P1197.aspx) book—or if you’re a K-8 educator looking for ways to strengthen students’ comprehension skills—here’s an exciting new resource to check out. In response to popular demand, literacy consultant Nancy Hennessy has developed a new activity book that helps teachers apply her popular Blueprint and deliver structured comprehension instruction that gets results.

Perfect for professional development, **[The Reading Comprehension Blueprint Activity Book](https://products.brookespublishing.com/The-Reading-Comprehension-Blueprint-Activity-Book-P1532.aspx)** is great for individual study, small-group discussions, or training programs/learning communities. This hands-on field guide is grounded in the science of reading, and it covers every section of the Blueprint: vocabulary, syntax and sentence comprehension, text structures, background knowledge, and levels of understanding and inference as well as expression of understanding. For each of these areas, this activity book gives you:

- Clear and concise guidance on the what, why, and how of instruction
- Sample lesson plans you can use as models for your own
- Instructional activities that help students build key skills needed for comprehension
- Ready-to-use tips for successful teaching
- “Try This” activities that help you reflect on and hone your instruction
- Supports for diverse learners, including students with learning disabilities and English language learners
- Reader-friendly definitions of important terms
- Links to multimedia content for further learning

Here’s an inside look at the kind of content you’ll find in the activity book. Click the link below to access a free sample lesson on Sentence Parsing—an effective way to help students identify and understand the function of words, phrases, and clauses by deconstructing sentences.

[DOWNLOAD YOUR SAMPLE](/content/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Hennessy-Excerpt.pdf)

Ready to enhance reading comprehension skills for all learners in Grades K-8? Get The Reading Comprehension Blueprint and companion Activity Book:

**[GET THE ACTIVITY BOOK](https://products.brookespublishing.com/The-Reading-Comprehension-Blueprint-P1197.aspx)**

A Practice & Planning Guide for Teachers

By Nancy E. Hennessy, M.Ed., & Julia Salamone, M.Ed.

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**[The Reading Comprehension Blueprint](https://products.brookespublishing.com/The-Reading-Comprehension-Blueprint-P1197.aspx)**

Helping Students Make Meaning from Text

By Nancy Hennessy, M.Ed.

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