Headsprout• Headsprout Early Readin

Headsprout• Headsprout Early Reading uses comprehension indicators to test whether students understand thetext they are decoding. Comprehension activities within the program include: choosing which picture(from an array of three) “goes with” the sentence the student just read; constructing meaning bybuilding sentences that result in an animated picture depicting the sentence; and expressing meaningby building sentences that describe a picture. Printable stories provide further opportunities for storybaseddiscussion and questions.• Headsprout Reading Comprehension provides explicit instruction and practice in readingcomprehension strategies to answer literal, inferential, main idea, and derived meaning (vocabulary)questions. Students also learn to organize information using Venn, sequence, cluster, and hierarchicaldiagrams and to use resources such as tables of contents and different types of illustrations.