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"Trevor Bryan’s Narrative Know-How is an essential resource for any elementary classroom, offering a straightforward, bottom-up approach that elevates both reading comprehension and an understanding of author’s craft. With a focus on Mood Structures, reading comprehension becomes visually accessible for students and teachers alike, creating a seamless connection between reading and writing.
"Trevor Bryan’s Narrative Know-How: A Fresh Approach to Support Comprehension and Craft in the K–6 Classroom shows how using a small set of high-utility tools across units, grades, and settings can provide on-ramps to high-level thinking skills across the literacy block. By connecting his classroom-tested tools, including Mood Structures and Access Lenses, to recent and robust research around the sciences of reading, Narrative Know-How prepares classroom teachers and instructional specialists to simplify and streamline joyful literacy learning."
"Fans of Trevor’s first book, The Art of Comprehension, will find new tools and inspiration here. Mood remains meaningful, but the author offers a bigger and bolder set of intentions. Narrative Know-How paves the way for composition as readers are introduced to four essential story principles and practical strategies for applying them."
"Narrative Know-How is more than a professional development book. It is an insightful and engaging guide that transforms how we think, talk, and teach stories. With clear strategies, thought-provoking lessons, and supporting tools that stretch across all levels and abilities, this book is a game-changer for educators looking to lift their students’ critical thinking."
"Trevor Bryan has a gift for making complex ideas simple, accessible, and joyful. His work has profoundly transformed my teaching, reshaping how I understand stories and, as a result, reshaping how my students comprehend and craft stories. After engaging with Trevor’s work, you’ll find yourself viewing every story through the lens of mood—it’s the powerful missing piece that educators didn’t know they were searching for."
