Activities and ideas....
When doing reading comprehension activities the students can use their personal reading books or the whole class text. (These activities are mainly designed for upper primary grades, year 3-6)
Summarising through Story pyramids
Story pyramid for (Text name)
Story pyramid key
Text connections Locate a connection in your text.
Use three sticky notes to stick onto the book you are reading where you make connections.
Story pyramid key
- The name of the main character.
- Two words describing the main character.
- Three words describing the setting.
- Four words describing the problem in the story.
- Five words describing an event at the beginning of the story.
- Six words describing an event that happened next.
- Seven words describing another event that happened after that.
- Eight words describing the solution to the problem.
Text connections Locate a connection in your text.
Use three sticky notes to stick onto the book you are reading where you make connections.
- Text to text
- Text to self
- Text to world
Double entry journal for Text connections
Text to text
In the text it says...... My connection ........
Text to Self
In the text it say ..... My connection ........
Text to world
In the text it says..... My connection...........
Inferring
Open minded Portrait
Choose a character in your story and pretend you are that character. Write what you would be thinking, feeling or wondering.
Draw a portrait of your character on A4 paper and on the back of the head write your response.
Pixar clip on Inferring
Text to text
In the text it says...... My connection ........
Text to Self
In the text it say ..... My connection ........
Text to world
In the text it says..... My connection...........
Inferring
Open minded Portrait
Choose a character in your story and pretend you are that character. Write what you would be thinking, feeling or wondering.
Draw a portrait of your character on A4 paper and on the back of the head write your response.
Pixar clip on Inferring
http://youtu.be/Ifc-1vJzNiA
Answer the following questions after watching the clip "One Man Band". Please answer in full sentences.
Answer the following questions after watching the clip "One Man Band". Please answer in full sentences.
- Why do buskers busk?
- Why is the clip called "One man band"?
- Why is there nobody in the square listening to the buskers?
- Where is the little girl from?
- Why is the little girl on her own?
- What was the second busker trying to do after he saw the other busker entertaining the little girl?
- Why did the buskers get into a fight?
- Where did the bag of gold coins come from when the little girl started playing the violin?
- When the little girls coin went down the drain what were the buskers thinking/ feeling?
- What was the little girl thinking as she was listening to the buskers play?
- What was the little girl thinking when she saw the buskers fighting?
- What was the moral of the story? What message does it teach the viewer?
Inferring on Pictures (some examples)
Synthesising - Synthesis eggs (graphic organiser) "Hatch a new idea"
This can be used for factual texts.