Understanding text is key to students' learning success! This notebook, developed for grades K-8, provides explicit instructions for teaching six fundamental comprehension strategies; predicting, making connections, visualizing, questioning, inferring, and summarizing. Great for novice, experienced, and content-area teachers, this resource includes templates and tools as well as instructions on how to incorporate these strategies into a core curriculum. This resource is correlated to College and Career Readiness other state standards.