Showing All: Reading Comprehension

Enjoyable, effective, timely, and easy to use, this activity takes advantage of the hype of the latest Big Game to improve comprehension skills.

Effective, enjoyable, easy to use, and inexpensive to make, this reading game, Comprehension Cups, helps students to see "the big picture," a metacognitive strategy. They read a factual detail and learn to make an inference about what information it communicates to them.

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this category game is a helpful way to get kids thinking in broad terms about main idea and supporting details. It helps to ingrain the metacognitive structure of this important reading strategy. It is also useful for verbal communication skills, allowing students to organize thoughts and speak in front of an audience in a short, non-threatening exercise. Crazy fun!

Effective, unique, and easy to use, these four lessons in making inferences contain well-known adages that are derived from centuries of human experiences. When matching these truisms to their underlying meanings, students practice making inferences from what they read. 

Effective, motivating, and easy to use, this set makes a strong addition to your comprehension repertoire with its metacognitive strategy (thinking about thinking) of placing details into the correct category: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

Summer is a great time to hook kids on reading because they can choose their own books according to their own interests. At the same time, they can practice previously taught reading skills and improve in many ways. This packet makes summer reading easy to manage.