Cover of the book titled 'First Steps Teacher’s Manual: A Comprehensive Literacy Program for Kindergarten, Fourth Edition,' developed by Cheryl Campbell and Tricia Gray, with an illustration of a cheerful cartoon lion wearing a camera, and a stack of five blue stones in the background.
Balanced comprehension instruction involves the development of word recognition skills, vocabulary, world knowledge, teaching comprehension strategies, and extensive reading of worthwhile books.
— Pressley, 2002