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Make this the summer you finally have a clear plan for teaching comprehension.

Build the Language Comprehension side of the Science of Reading with practical tools educators and specialists can use right away.

Solve a real classroom problem. Learn what to do when students can read the words but still struggle to understand the meaning.

Start next year with a proven framework. Use the Story Grammar Marker^® Approach to make comprehension visible, teachable, and transferable.

Learn at your own pace. Complete the course over summer break in a manageable rhythm—about an hour a day.

• Self-Paced • Hands-On Implementation Resources • Live Support • Certificate of Completion • Optional Graduate-Level Credits

Structured for Fidelity. Flexible for Implementation.

The Approach

The Story Grammar Marker^® Approach gives educators a consistent, research-based framework for teaching language comprehension without requiring a rigid lesson-by-lesson script.

Using hands-on visual tools, shared icons, instructional routines, and clear language targets, educators learn how to make comprehension visible, teachable, and transferable.

The approach supports instruction in oral language development, narrative and informational discourse, inferential thinking, perspective-taking, Theory of Mind, vocabulary, and sentence building for improved listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

The Course

The Language Comprehension Instruction for Educators: A Missing Factor For Visible Literacy Instruction Course teaches educators how to implement the Story Grammar Marker^® Approach with clarity, intentionality, and fidelity.

Across five units, participants move through a clear progression of research foundations, learning targets, modeled examples, practice opportunities, and implementation supports.

Rather than offering isolated strategies, the course teaches educators how to apply an integrated framework across academic and social learning contexts.

The Difference

Together, The Story Grammar Marker^® Approach and the course create a semi-manualized instructional framework.

Educators receive a clear, explicit, and systematic structure for teaching language comprehension; while still preserving the flexibility and professional decision-making for instruction across students, settings, texts, and learning goals.

The structure stays consistent. The teaching stays responsive.