This box of comprehension cards covers:
High-interest short
passages of text along with five comprehension questions
that prompt students to identify and effectively cite text
evidence
A variety of genres
Comprehension-helper
cards that provide kid-friendly definitions, tips,
and examples to help students master reading skills
On each of the 100 text cards there is a passage
of age-appropriate text with an illustration and five comprehension
questions related to the passage. The 10 different
questions types in this fiction box are:
Cause and Effect
- Questions focused on an event or action that makes something
happen in a story and the result or consequence of that event
or action.
Character - Questions focused on the characters of a story
Compare and Contrast - Questions focused on looking closely
at two or more things (characters, settings, plots, etc.) to see
how they are similar. And looking closely at two or more things
to see how they are different.
Conflict and Resolution
- Questions focused on the main problem of a story and the solution
to, or outcome of, the problem or conflict. Not all resolutions
are happy ones.
Inference - Questions focused on drawing
a conclusion based on clues in the text and your own background
knowledge.
Point of view - Questions about the story perspective
i.e. looking at pronouns etc.
Prediction - Questions
focused on using what you know from the text to make a sensible
guess about what will happen later on in a story.
Setting
- Questions focused on the settings of a story.
Theme
- Questions focused on the big idea or message of a story. A
theme is conveyed by title, setting and symbols. It can also be conveyed
by how its characters act, learn and change.
Tone
- Questions focused on the way the narrator feels about the events,
settings and characters in a story.
The fifth question
on each card will be a S-T-R-E-T-C-H question, a creative
thinking question such as writing sentences using words/phrases
from the story, describing something from the story, explaining
what might happen next, describing a real-life event that's
connected to the story, asking an opinion on the story or character
from the story.
Age-appropriate helper cards provide
background information to help children respond knowledgeably
to the comprehension questions. There are 14 helper cards
in this box covering:
Cause and Effect
Character
Compare
and Contrast
Context
Clues
Fiction Text
Figurative Language
Inference
Point
of View
Prediction
Text
Evidence
Also
includes a Teacher's Booklet to provide ideas
on how to use the cards and answers.
This is Book 1 in the Fast Finishers English Series. See all Fast Finishers English books here.
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