Reading comprehension in the primary grades -- The guided comprehension model for the primary grades -- Creating, organizing, and managing comprehension centers -- Organizing and managing comprehension routines -- Assessment and leveled texts -- Favorite author Eric Carle -- The neverending adventures of Arthur the Aardvark -- Animals, animals! -- Dinosaur discoveries -- Situating guided comprehension in other themes -- Appendix A, primary-level developmental continuum for reading and writing -- Appendix B, research-based resources for teaching phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension -- Appendix C, comprehension skill- and strategy-based teaching ideas and blackline masters -- Appendix D, resources for organizing and managing comprehension centers and routines -- Appendix E, assessment of blackline masters -- Appendix F, sources of leveled narrative and expository texts -- Appendix G, home-school connections.