The Roadmaps to Mastering Reading Comprehension
Written from the Ground Up for Florida's B.E.S.T., these professional manuals scaffold the teaching and learning of Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards. This Uncomplicated Ed resource is specifically for Florida's Reading Standards (R.1, R.2, R.3) and supports educators for
K-2nd, 3rd-5th, 6th-8th, and 9th-12th grades.
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Click below to explore a self-guided digital walkthrough of the Reading Roadmaps. You’ll hear directly from the author as she walks you through the key features, purpose, and practical ways to use the tool—all designed to uncomplicate reading instruction.
What's Included
Every roadmap set is designed for clarity, durability, and daily use.
Quality and Durable Design
Each Roadmap is printed on quality, full-color, high-gloss paper and is expertly spiral-bound. Highlight, and annototate away with your quality resource.
The Heart of the Roadmaps
Our rubrics are the heart (and soul) of the Roadmaps. These scaffold each benchmark from the beginning to the end of the year.
The Student Anchor Charts
Student and teachers love the student anchor charts that break each benchmark into student-friendly language and images.
Additional Resources for Educators
One-pagers that show an entire standard at once, annotated B.E.S.T.-text list, a curated glossary, reference posters, and more.
What They Are and What They Are Not
Florida’s Essential Tool for Literacy Instruction – Reading Comprehension Roadmaps
Ensuring rigorous, standards-aligned literacy instruction across classrooms can be a challenge. Our Reading Comprehension Roadmaps, designed specifically for Florida’s B.E.S.T. Standards, help teachers plan, deliver, and assess high-quality reading instruction with confidence.
Why Florida School Leaders Choose the Roadmaps
Fully Aligned to Florida’s B.E.S.T. Standards – Supports mastery of grade-level reading benchmarks.
Guides Lesson Planning & Observations – Administrators and coaches can use Roadmaps to provide precise feedback on rigor and alignment.
Boosts Student Success – Helps teachers break down complex literacy skills into actionable steps for stronger learning outcomes.
Designed for Grades K-12 – Ensures vertical alignment and instructional consistency across grade levels.
The Roadmaps: A Principal’s Guide to Meaningful Reading Observations
As a principal or assistant principal, you’re responsible for supporting instructional excellence across all grade levels—but you can’t be an expert in every subject. With Reading Comprehension Roadmaps in hand, you can provide precise, subject-specific feedback on literacy instruction, even if you don’t have a background in ELA.
Confidence in Every Classroom
Time-of-Year Aligned Feedback
Built Entirely from Florida’s B.E.S.T. Standards
Stronger Teacher Conversations
Know exactly what rigorous, on-grade-level reading instruction should look like at any point in the year.
Instantly see what reading benchmarks teachers should be covering and how deeply students should be engaging with texts.
These Roadmaps were developed from the ground up using Florida’s standards, ensuring 100% alignment.
Move beyond general observations and offer targeted, meaningful feedback that helps teachers refine their practice.
What's Inside?
Expectation Rubrics – Track progress toward mastery of Florida reading benchmarks.
Student-Friendly Anchor Charts – Visual tools to help reinforce key literacy concepts.
Guided Scaffolding – Question prompts that support learning and deepen comprehension.
Instructor’s Quick Sheets – One-page guides that simplify instructional planning.
Digital & Print Access – Flexible formats for classroom display and student use of the Student Anchor Charts.
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The Poetry Benchmarks: R.1.4
Want to check out some of the Rubrics and Student Anchor Charts from our Roadmaps? We have you covered. Click below to receive PDFs of ALL of our R.1.4 (poetry) Rubrics and Student Anchor Charts.
The Roadmaps to Mastering Reading Comprehension
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Videos on the Roadmaps
The Roadmaps to Mastering Reading Comprehension
Take a 30-second look at our Roadmaps to Mastering Reading Comprehension and see what they're all about.
Leaders: Improving Reading Comprehension with B.E.S.T.
In this recording, we'll walk through the components of the Roadmaps and how you, as a leader, can use them to provide specific feedback and monitoring with reading.
Navigating the B.E.S.T.: K-2nd Nonfiction Comprehension
Check out this walkthrough
specifically for the K-2nd Non-Fiction application
of the Roadmaps.
Navigating the B.E.S.T.: 3rd-5th Poetry Comprehension
Join our walkthrough of these benchmarks and learn how to make poetry instruction easier with our Roadmaps.
Roadmaps for 6th-8th
Florida Reading Teachers
In less than 5 minutes, we'll walk through the middle school Roadmap features (including the bonus reference sheets).
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