Robert Dean Introduction to reading comprehension
 

Introduction to reading comprehension

30Min.
1,500 P
Learn conversational skills and the ability to ask questions, new vocabulary, boost your overall cognition of a specific topic.

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I always like to do this mini-class before jumping to a reading comprehension class. Why ?

Why is it important to teach

kids to ask questions while they

read?

Learning to form and articulate questions before, during, and after reading helps students with reading comprehension. This allows them to make sense of what they are reading so they can understand it more deeply. Basically, teaching students to ask thought provoking questions while reading helps them to monitor their own comprehension.

For this activity, I began with an empty anchor chart titled “What the Picture Doesn’t Show”. I have students select an animal picture from a stack of animal cards we sometimes use to generate ideas for writing, and I taped it to the middle of the anchor chart. As a class, we brainstormed a list of things that the picture DID NOT tell us.

 


Where is this? What type of trees are those? Is that a jungle or a rainforest? Does he have friends? What are they looking at? Why is it holding the baby? Who took the picture? We had soooo many questions about the image, and quickly discovered that the image really wasn’t telling us very much at all!

When the students were done with the activity, we took turns sharing some of our questions. I was super impressed with some of their ideas! It was a great, quick, hands on mini lesson to introduce the reading strategy of questioning before heading into our literacy block. Later in the day, some of the students even chose to write about their images – all of those questions uncovered stories that they were just dying to get out on the page !

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