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
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.
Figurative
Language - Questions focused on words and phrases that mean something
different from what the words actually say.
Inference
- Drawing a conclusion about a story based on clues in the text
and your own background knowledge.
Prediction - 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.
Text Evidence - Questions focused
on exact words, phrases or sentences in a text that provide
information, answer a question or support a claim.
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.
Vocabulary
- Hints that readers use to work out the meaning of an unknown
word in a text. Context clues can come before or after the unknown
word.
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 10 helper cards in this box covering:
Cause
and Effect
Character
Conflict and Resolution
Context
Clues
Figurative Language
Prediction
Setting
Text
Evidence
Theme
Also includes a Teacher's Booklet to
provide ideas on how to use the cards and answers.
This is Book 9 in the Fast Finishers English Series. See all Fast Finishers English books here.
See More Educational: English language: reading & writing skills
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Nikki Gamble is the Founder and Director of Just Imagine and Associate Consultant at UCL's Institute of Education. She has worked extensively in schools across the UK and internationally, most recently managing a project for the London Schools Excellence Fund with a focus on developing excellence in teaching reading at KS2 and KS3. Nikki is author of Explori
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