CSI – Comprehension Strategies Instruction

EDUCATORS

CSI is founded on evidence-based principles that are known to increase student achievement, so that:

1. All students, no matter what their independent reading level, learn comprehension strategies and improve their literacy achievement using short, grade-level texts, teacher scaffolding, peer interaction, and audio/visual support.
2. All students learn comprehension strategies by experiencing new concepts more than three times over a short period, through modeling and think aloud, interaction, reflection, and application of concepts. For this purpose, CSI is highly interactive.
3. All students are engaged by interesting, relevant, and authentic texts and tasks across four content areas and are encouraged to be increasingly responsible for their progress as they learn the literacy strategies vital for their success.

With CSI, students learn comprehension strategies by experiencing new concepts more than three times over a short period, through whole-group modeling and think aloud, cooperative interaction, and reflection and independent application of concepts.

 
CSI has been designed for flexible delivery and is very easy to use. It supports teachers to implement research-based instructional principles with minimal preparation time. It provides teachers with the tools to model the effective use of comprehension strategies to increase understanding of content-area texts.

Content-area teachers don't have to be literacy experts! With its comprehensive lesson plan folders, CSI is specially designed to support math, science, and social studies content-area teachers to teach literacy in their content area without having to be literacy experts.

For more research about the evidence base of CSI, click here.