Full Description
This box of comprehension cards covers:
High-interest short
passages of text along with four 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 four 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
Details - Literal questions, which you may remember
from reading the text and can answer straight away. Questions
to show that you have read/understood the text.
Inference
- Questions focused on drawing a conclusion based on clues in
the text and your own background knowledge.
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.
Problem
and Solution - 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.
Sequence of Events
- Questions focused on the plot and the order of events in a
plot (beginning, middle, end)
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.
Vocabulary
- Questions focused on 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 fourth 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 11 helper cards in
this box covering:
Cause and Effect
Character
Details
Fiction
Text
Inference
Prediction
Problem
and Solution
Sequence of Events
Setting
Text
Evidence
Vocabulary
Also
includes a Teacher's Booklet to provide ideas on how
to use the cards and answers.
