five pioneers
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The Five Pioneersin Reading Comprehension
From Grade 3 to Grade 9, with one framework.
Video lessons that follow the Nafis skills and teach students to choose the right pioneer for every question.
Figures are from the program pages on the Estaed Plus platform, November 2026.
Five pioneers on one journey
In every lesson, the learner moves through five ways of thinking. Choose a pioneer on the wheel to discover their role.
Pioneer 1 · White Hat
The Discoverer
From observation to concept
Arrives at the concept on their own from the text or example in front of them, and only then meets the definition.
Their skills across the three grades ↓The methodology draws on the Wisdom Pyramid (Ackoff, 1989) and the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001). Each program has steps suited to its subject. The pioneers' colors here are inspired by Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats.
Three programs available now on Estaed Plus
Watch the lessons and practice them on the Estaed Plus platform, part of Global Board Group.
Grade 3 (Primary)
Lughati (My Language) · Second semester
An introduction and 15 video lessons in reading comprehension, each with a summary and practice from the Nafis explanation book.
Discoverer 3Practitioner 3Researcher 4Judge 3Developer 2
Grade 6 (Primary)
Lughati Al-Jamila (My Beautiful Language) · Second semester
An introduction and 18 video lessons in reading comprehension, to master all fourteen indicators.
Discoverer 5Practitioner 3Researcher 5Judge 3Developer 2
Grade 9 (Intermediate)
Lughati Al-Khalida (My Timeless Language)
19 video lessons in reading comprehension, to master all sixteen indicators.
Discoverer 2Practitioner 3Researcher 6Judge 5Developer 3
From explanation to mastery
A short video divided by minutes, with each skill in its own minutes.
The skill on a single page the student can return to.
A solved question that shows how to answer.
For printing and studying away from the screen.
A wrong answer takes the student back to the exact minute of the explanation.
Every question has a pioneer
Reading comprehension questions in Nafis ask students for different kinds of thinking: to discover, to understand a word, to look for relationships, to judge, and to develop. In these lessons, the student learns each skill with the pioneer who represents it, so that their question in front of any text becomes: Which pioneer do I need now?
The same pioneers accompany the student from Grade 3 to Grade 9, and the skills grow with them at each stage.
Facing a question, I call on…
- The DiscovererWhat type of text is it? What is its main idea?
- The Skilled PractitionerWhat does the word mean in context?
- The ResearcherWhat is the cause? What is the result?
- The JudgeDo I agree with the writer? Why?
- The DeveloperHow can I suggest a new ending or solution?
One pioneer who grows with the student
Each pioneer's skills in every grade, taken from the lesson titles on the Estaed Plus platform.
The Discoverer
From observation to concept
- Text type and its idea
- Why was the text written? What is it made of?
- Direct information and sequence of events
- Poetry or prose? Real or imaginary?
- Text format and field
- Why was the text written? What is it about?
- Main idea and sub-ideas
- Information, characters and events
- Topic and main idea
- Sub-ideas
The Skilled Practitioner
From organization to application
- Word meaning
- Word form
- Word usage
- Word meaning in context
- Words with similar meanings
- Classification and usage
- Meaning of the term
- Meaning of the term and the relations between terms
- Distinguishing and using vocabulary
The Researcher
From analysis to inference
- Cause and effect
- What did the character do? Why?
- Similarities and differences
- Relationships and values
- Coherence of ideas
- Comparing concepts
- Relationships between characters and sentences
- Cause and effect
- Interpreting, connecting and inferring
- Text organization
- Reading between the lines
- Asking questions
- Similarities, differences and comparing texts
- Examples, language and connectors
- Phenomena, values and arguments
The Judge
From judgment to justification
- The beautiful phrase
- Distinguishing and giving an opinion
- Could this happen? What is its value?
- Beauty of expression and the writer's emotion
- Judging information and point of view
- Evaluating values and persuasion
- The critic's questions and evidence
- The writer's feelings, motives and structures
- Point of view and evaluation
- Refuting, and opinions on values and attitudes
- The impact of values, and evaluating and supporting opinions
The Developer
From development to innovation
- I benefit and I name
- A new ending and a solution
- A new title, beginning and ending
- Wording, organizing and proposing solutions
- Building and proposing
- Summarizing, rewording and organizing
- Solving problems using the text's information
Learn about the five pioneers and their roles on the Innovative Wheel page.
For the student at home, and the teacher in class
The student
Subscribes on their own, or joins through their teacher's link, and learns each skill by video and then practices it.
The teacher
Buys the program for their class and shares the link, so up to 80 students join for free, with a class dashboard and reports.
The school
One reading comprehension framework across all stages, from primary to intermediate.
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