Free Tools & Guides
Practical downloads for students and parents. These printable supports help with comprehension, organization, and access to reading.
Printable supports
for students and families.
As students grow, the demands of reading change. These four comprehension strategy resources help support reading development across grade levels with practical tools for building vocabulary, activating background knowledge, encouraging discussion, and deepening understanding.
Supports young readers in building understanding through simple vocabulary, background knowledge, short text chunks, oral retells, and learning to use graphic organizers.
Helps students move from learning to read toward reading to learn by teaching key vocabulary, previewing text features, chunking reading, beginning note-taking, and main idea support.
Strengthens comprehension for more complex texts through background knowledge building, essential vocabulary, structured note-taking, text-based discussion, and evidence-based written responses.
Develops independent comprehension of demanding texts by teaching annotation, academic vocabulary, strategic chunking, critical thinking, and analysis supported by textual evidence.
The resources below include printable graphic organizers students can use before, during, and after reading across grade levels and subjects to organize ideas, strengthen comprehension, and help with writing. KWL charts, story maps, concept maps, and compare-and-contrast Venn diagrams help students make connections and better understand what they read.
A simple before, during, and after reading organizer that helps students activate prior knowledge, ask questions, and record new learning. The MIRA KWL chart can be used across grade levels and subject areas to make engagement with text more active and organized, which helps with comprehension.
Story maps help students organize important information from text in a clear visual format. MIRA story maps include options for simple & complex narratives, expository, and science texts so students can identify key ideas, track events or processes, and better understand what they read across subjects.
A visual organizer for identifying similarities and differences between ideas, texts, topics, or concepts. MIRA’s compare-and-contrast organizers can be used across the curriculum to teach relationships, support discussion, and strengthen writing and comprehension.
A visual brainstorming organizer that helps students connect a central topic to supporting ideas and details. MIRA’s concept map can be used across grades as a prewriting, brainstorming, and comprehension tool to organize thinking and show relationships between ideas.
Clear, family-friendly guides that help parents find useful tools and reduce barriers to access text at home.
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