Reading Comprehension:
Strategy-based Comprehension Lesson Ideas:
Developed by Curriculum Support Teachers of S.D. #71 |
| Making Inferences: |
Infer from Objects or Pictures ~ Oh, the stories our shoes tell! |
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Infer from body language and photos |
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Infer from Body Language and Photos 2 |
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Infer from pictures: Twelve Terrible Things |
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Infer information from sentences |
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Inferring Meaning from Poems |
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Using Jane Yoen’s book Encounter to infer from text and pictures |
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Using video clips to infer |
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Inferring from two theme-rich picture books ~ 10 Cows for America & Ziba Came on a Boat |
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Infer from pictures; Infer the sequence of pictures |
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BCTELA workshop handouts: Explicitly teaching our students to make Inferences Oct. 2009 |
| Determining Importance: |
A Note Making Lesson Sequence |
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How Can We Explicitly Teach Primary Students to Make Webs?
(For Grades 2 – 5 and beyond!) |
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Early Primary Main ideas Web ~ Mostly Oral Language! |
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Keep things social!: Determine Importance from short fictional stories or novels |
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Kid-Friendly Determining Importance Activities |
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Don’t tell kids how important text features are. Get them to build their own! |
| Making Connections: |
Making Connections with velcro. How fun is that? |
| Questioning: |
Asking questions about an intriguing artifact |
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What’s that? Getting kids to ask questions before, during and after EATING! |
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Creating questions from song lyrics |
| Synthesizing: |
Synthezing: An analogy using Ukranian nesting dolls |
| Visualize: |
Visualizing ~ in French and English |
