Reading Comprehension

TodayLearning Goal(s):oImprove reading comprehension and team work skillsLearning Expectations:oRead texts with purpose oWork within a team to achieve goals

Starter: Visualisation

Person A – describe the picture you have been given to your partner

Person B – draw what your partner describes to you with your eyes closed

Reading Comprehension

Techniques (How?)1.Predictions 2.Text structure 3.Visualising 4.Organising your thoughts 5.Questioning6.Summarising

Organise your thoughts Use a graphic organiser (such as a concept map, senses chart or a table) to set out your thoughts about a text and record what you read.

Senses Chart

Concept Map

Flow Chart

Venn Diagram

Questioning Before reading: Read for a specific purpose. Know what questions you are trying to answer or what information you are looking for before you start reading.

After reading : Ask questions about the text (e.g. What more do I need to find out? Did I like what I read?) Answer questions about a text.

Questioning – I do

I am doing a science project on green tree frogs. So I generate some questions that I need to answer:oHow big are green tree frogs? oWhat do they eat? oWhere do they live in the wild?

Summarising Write a short summary of what you read with important information. You may use dot point format.

Summarising – I doDaily life during the Middle Ages is sometimes hard to fathom. Pop culture loves to focus on exciting medieval moments-heroic knights charging into battle; romantic liaisons between royalty and commoner; breakthroughs and discoveries made. But life for your average person during the Dark Ages was very routine, and activities revolved around an agrarian calendar. Medieval superstitions held sway over science, but traveling merchants and returning crusaders told of cultures in Asia, the Middle East and Africa that had advanced learning of the earth and the human body. Middle Age food found new flavour courtesy of rare spices that were imported from the East. Schools and universities were forming across Western Europe that would help medieval society evolve from the Dark Ages on its way to a Renaissance of art and learning.

Lesson Review1. Why is reading comprehension important? 2. What are three comprehension techniques

you can use before, during or after reading a text?

3. Choose one comprehension technique and explain how to use it.

Team Work

In your groups you are to complete several activities as a team. Some activities relate to reading comprehension, others relate to mathematics and some are designed to build your team work skills.

Rules O Every team member is to contribute

and complete each activity.O All teams are to complete a

minimum of three workstations O Different workstation activities are

worth different points O Points can be deducted or awarded

by any teacherO The team with the most points at the

end of the lesson wins

Visualising – You do1. Draw and label a picture of the girl described in the

passage below

She was a person of sixteen or so – alone, and uncommonly pretty. She was slender and pale, and dressed in mourning, with a black bonnet under which she tucked back a straying twist of blonde hair that the wind had teased loose. She had unusually dark brown eyes for one so fair. Her name was Sally Lockhart; and within fifteen minutes, she was going to kill a man.

*Extension Questions* Answer these questions in full sentences

2. What kind of text do you think this is an extract from? (e.g. I think this is an extract from a _________ because __________)

3. What do you think is going to happen next ? (e.g. I think that Sally will _____ then _______)

4. Why do you think Sally Lockhart is going to kill a man?

Organising your thoughts

Select a suitable graphic organiser to: 1.Display the steps involved in making hamburgers (see hand out)2.Describe hamburgers (use senses)

Questioning – We do O Read through the questions on your

hand out O Once you know what you are being

asked to do read “Skateboard menace”

O Answer questions in full sentences

Questioning – You do O Read through the questions you

must answer O Once you know what you are being

asked to do read The Titanic Mystery O Answer questions in full sentences