## Contents

### About the Downloads

### About the Author

### Foreword Louisa Cook Moats, Ed.D.

### Preface

### Acknowledgments

**Section I The Nature of Reading Comprehension**

**Chapter 1 Dimensions of Skilled Reading: Connecting to Educators’ Critical Background Knowledge**  
The Blueprint Inventory of Reading Comprehension Knowledge

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**Section II  The Blueprint**

**Chapter 3 The Blueprint for Reading Comprehension Instruction**  
Connecting the Blueprint to the Classroom  
The Challenge of Change  
The Blueprint  
Unpacking the Blueprint's Components  
Summary: An Instructional Framework

**Chapter 4 The Blueprint for Vocabulary**  
Connecting Vocabulary Instruction to the Classroom  
Vocabulary Defined  
Connections to Reading Comprehension  
Designing and Delivering Comprehensive Instruction  
Adapting to Individual Needs  
Assessing Students' Vocabulary Knowledge  
Summary: Helping Students Construct Word Meaning

**Chapter 5 The Blueprint for Syntax and Sentence Comprehension**  
Connecting Sentence Comprehension to the Classroom  
Syntax and Sentence Comprehension  
Connections to Reading Comprehension  
Designing and Delivering Comprehensive Instruction  
Adapting to Individual Needs  
Assessing Students' Sentence Comprehension  
Summary: Helping Students Construct Meaning at the Sentence Level

**Chapter 6 The Blueprint for Text Structures**  
Connecting Text Structures to the Classroom  
Literacy Knowledge and Text Structures  
Connections to Reading Comprehension  
Understanding Text Structures  
Designing and Delivering Comprehensive Instruction  
Adapting to Individual Needs  
Assessing Students' Understanding of Text Structure  
Summary: Teaching Text Structure Effectively

**Chapter 7 The Blueprint for Background Knowledge**  
Connecting Background Knowledge to the Classroom  
A Perspective on Knowledge  
Connections to Reading Comprehension  
Designing and Delivering Comprehensive Instruction  
Adapting to Individual Needs  
Summary: Helping Students Use Knowledge to Construct Meaning

**Chapter 8 The Blueprint for Levels of Understanding and Inference**  
Connecting to the Classroom  
Levels of Understanding  
Connections to Reading Comprehension  
Inference Defined  
Necessary Inferences: Local and Global Coherence  
Designing and Delivering Comprehensive Instruction  
Adapting to Individual Needs  
Assessing for Levels of Understanding and Inference  
Summary: Helping Students Use Inference to Construct Meaning

**Section III Implementation**

**Chapter 9 The Blueprint: Making It Work**  
Planning for Instruction  
Building Educator Expertise  
Implementing Systemwide Educational Change  
Summary: Implementing Instructional Change

**Appendices**  
Appendix 9.1: Unit and Lesson Organizer Templates  
Appendix 9.2: Lesson Organizer Examples  
Appendix 9.3: Interactive Book Study Questions

Appendix: Instructional Tools and Templates  
The Blueprint for Reading Comprehension Instruction  
The Vocabulary-Attuned Educator  
Choosing Words: Fuzzy Problem Space  
An Instructional Road Map for Vocabulary  
Word Meaning Map: Noun  
Word Meaning Map: Adjective  
Simple Vocabulary Routine  
The Sentence-Attuned Teacher  
Basic Aspects of Narrative and Instructional Text  
Basic Aspects of Informational Text  
An Instructional Road Map for Text Structure  
ABCs of Background Knowledge: Instructional Tools  
The Inference-Attuned Teacher  
Clues and Connections

Index