Category: Strategies
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$1.00Add to CartMaking predictions before and during reading a book is a critical reading skill. This resource can be used over and over again throughout the school year with your students to help them develop this vital skill.
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Colorful and eye-catching reading comprehension strategy posters and handouts that will help readers connect and understand what they are reading. When using these strategies, students will be actively engaged in and analyzing the written text. They will activate prior knowledge, seek to understand the author’s purpose, ask questions (about characters, setting and events), predicting, visualize, infer, summarize, compare and contrast and question.
This resource includes:
- – 8 Full-page individual strategy posters
- – 8 Half-page strategy handouts
- – 1 Full-page poster/handout that includes all 8 strategies
Strategies included:
- – Author’s purpose – PIE (Persuade, Inform, Entertain
- – SUMmarize it
- – Questioning (4 questions that encompass characters, setting, events as well as asking themselves questions about their own thoughts)
- – Compare and Contrast
- – Connecting (text to self ; text to text ; text to world)
- – Visualizing (create images of events and actions)
- – Predicting
- – Inference (Looking for clues in the text to discover what is not directly stated)
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This Language Arts resource as been created to teach and reinforce an important comprehension skill: determining cause and effect (the relationship between events – actions and reactions) within the written text. They will also be instructed on ‘signal words’ such as because, do, since, if, as a result of and as.
In this resource, you’ll get…
- Classroom poster
- Student handout
- 13 student activity pages
- 3 assessments
- Answer Keys
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The skill of being able to compare and contrast effectively is extremely important throughout subjects: Literature, Science and Social Studies. Comparing and contrasting is necessary for interaction with the environment. Finding differences and/or similarities helps students organize both new and known information. Students need to be able to note differences and similarities between or among objects, ideas, entities, concepts, events, etc..
This resource includes: 2 posters, an introduction to a Venn diagram and 25 student activity pages. Once you use this resource with your students, they will have mastered the ability to compare and contrast!
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Part of understanding any written text is being able to determine an author’s purpose. Was the piece written to persuade, to inform or to entertain?
This Language Arts / Reading worksheet provides a place for students to ask themselves important questions about the text to help them determine what the purpose of the text is. They will also be asked to support their conclusion with clue’s from within the passage.
Download once and use again and again!
