15 Minute Comprehension Activities

1. 15 Minute Comprehension Activities Reading and Math Night 2018

2. What do good readers do? • BEFORE READING: • Set a purpose for reading • Think if you will be reading to find out what happens in a STORY or to learn specific INFORMATION. • Preview the Text • Look at the titles, pictures, captions under pictures, headings, bold-faced type and other text features. • Activate Background Knowledge • Think about what you already know about the topic you will be reading about • Predict • Think about what might happen in the story, what words may be used, or what information it might contain.

3. What do good readers do? • During Reading: • Cross Check • Check one word with another. Ask yourself, “Does this word look right, sound right and make sense?” • Reread • When problems occur, return to the beginning of a sentence or paragraph and read it again. • Skip, Read on, and Go Back • Sometimes you can skip a word and continue reading until the end of the sentence and then go back and try to make sense of the text.

4. What do good readers do? • During Reading Continued… • Connect Background Knowledge • Think about what you already know about the subject and the kind of material you are reading. Think about the how the information you’re reading is similar to what you already know. • Stop and Review • If you are reading a longer text, stop and think about what has happened in the story so far or what information you have been given. • Students do this on a daily basis in SFA Reading and should be comfortable re-stating the message after each page of reading.

5. What do good readers do? • After Reading: • Retell and Summarize • Tell someone what happened in the story including characters, plot and important events. If the text is non-fiction, tell someone some facts you learned from the reading. • Reread • Re-read the text or a section of the text that you felt was difficult to help you understand it better. • Discuss and Respond • Talk with someone about what you have read in the text. Use the text to support your opinions/facts with specific page numbers.

6. What do good readers do? • After Reading Continued… • Draw Conclusions • Think about the predictions you made during and before reading. Were your predictions correct? • Use a Graphic Organizer • Make a story map, Venn diagram, list of facts, etc. to help solidify information. • Write to Support Understanding • Write about what you have read and learned, telling what it made you think of and/or what you learned.

7. Must Know Reading Vocabulary • Literary Elements: • character • plot • setting • climax • mood • theme • tone • genre • New Text Language • Passage • Article • Excerpt • Editorial • Text • Stimuli • Diagram • Figurative Language • simile, metaphor, idiom, adage, onomatopoeia, personification, dialect, hyperbole, alliteration

8. Must Know Reading Vocabulary • Reading Skills: Paraphrase, summarize, cause/effect, main idea, details, inference, sequence, predict, compare/contrast, context clues, draw conclusions • Text Features: Titles, captions, subtitles, lists, glossary, index, table of contents, charts, graphs, illustrationsor pictures, covers • Related Words: synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, homophones

9. Test Item Types • ELA Question Types: • Multiple Choice: Select one answer • Multi-Select: More than one answer should be chosen • Two Part: two questions pertaining to the same topic • Open Response: 1-3 sentences (just enough to answer the question and support it from the text) • Hot Text: highlights the sentence (computer-based) • Graphics: interacting with the text (computer-based) • Editing Task: make edits within the text (computer-based) • Listening Task: Student listens to audio file and answers questions based on what they have heard (computer-based grades 4-11)

10. Test Item Types Multi-Select with 2 Correct Responses

11. Test Item Types Multiple-Choice with 2 Parts

12. Test Item Types Open Response Questions

13. Test Item Types Hot-Text (computer-based)

14. Test Item Types

16. Test Item Types Graphics (computer-based)