Comprehension

The scholastic website has a range of printable overviews for a checklist of strategies that students can use before/during and after reading to support comprehension.

http://www.scholastic.com/browse/search/teacherautoComplete=1&?query=checklist+of+strategies+students+use+before+reading&as_values_059=&channelOnly=true

The following website contains games, powerpoints (for use with children and teachers) and resources that may be supportive for comprehension lessons and activities.

http://languagearts.pppst.com/readingcomprehension.html

Thea reading rockets website has a host of comprehension strategies, clearly explained with examples and in some cases videos.

http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/#comprehension

COMPREHENSION IN ACTION

Watch a year three teacher support her students as they learn to understand and answer inferential questions (7 minutes)
You need to be registered with Scootle to view (See registration instructions at the bottom of the learning resources page)

http://www.teachingacenglish.edu.au/explicit-teaching/reading/explicit-teaching-reading-year-3.html

Read an online article about supporting children's comprehension:

http://www.heinemann.com/shared/onlineresources/E00625/chapter1.pdf

GRAPHIC ORGANISERS

Research indicates that graphic organisers can support students to visualise abstract concepts and content.
Graphic organisers can support students to comprehend a range of texts and provide scaffolding within a lesson or series of lessons.
They are not an end product in themselves and should not be filled out and finished like a worksheet.
Instead they are to be used to assist students to conceptualise abstract concepts and to plan and organise their thoughts. They should be used as a step or scaffold within the larger concept of comprehension.

http://www.balancedreading.com/graphorg.html

http://www.educationoasis.com/index.htm

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=2983

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/3479

http://freeology.com/graphicorgs/page/2/  

Sample resources

Attached Files:

•  Comprehension Books n Blanks.doc (140.5 KB)
•  comprehension basic.doc (48.5 KB)
•  Blank's comprehension questions 001.jpg (522.147 KB)
•  Blank's questions for Hungry Caterpillar 001.jpg (443.664 KB)
•  Comprehension questions and types and bookmark.docx (19.924 KB)

Here you will find further description of the types of questions in a checklist chart and a list of possible questions (under the four question types) for The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.
There is also a list of sample questions (for each question type) for Koala Lou by Mem Fox and an idea for a bookmark to ensure you are asking questions from all four levels for any text.

in google drive

QAR (question answer relationship) and levels of questioning

Attached Files:

•  Hidden- questions.pdf (270.424 KB)
•  head_questions.doc (239 KB)
•  here_questions.doc (177 KB)
•  QAR cards.pdf (63.52 KB)
•  qar_question_stems.pdf (68.12 KB)

The attached pdf gives question stems for the four levels of questioning (qar-question stems)

There are three classroom posters here that relate to levels of questions as well (here, head and hidden questions)

QAR cards pdf has classroom posters for each level of questioning as well.


This document looks at how the QAR works in a simple format for young children.

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson232/question.pdf