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When students miss “A shiver ran down his spine”

Are your students glossing over important details in texts? With fiction, it’s like they get the gist of what’s going on but they don’t catch the finer details that move a story forward or that reveal critical moments. In a conference I had recently, a student was reading a Scholastic short, an excerpt from the …Read more

What Others Are Saying About Sunday and Her Work

"Learning from Sunday Cummins is an experience that leaves you wanting more.
She is wildly knowledgeable about each stage of reading, and she is keenly responsive
to students’ needs. She is always highly engaging for both students and adults alike."


Dr. Lisa Friesen

District Instructional Coordinator, North Kansas City Schools

Professional Books Authored by Sunday

Nuturing Informed Thinking book by Sunday Cummins

Practical help for teaching students in grades 3-8 to read, talk, and write across informational sources.

Close Reading of Informational Sources book by Sunday Cummins

Introduces a three-phase plan for teaching and provides guidance for planning and assessing students’ comprehension of informational sources.

Unpacking Complexity in Informational Texts book by Sunday Cummins

Explains the ways in which a text’s purpose, structure, details, connective language and construction of themes combine to create meaning.