This box of comprehension cards covers:High-interest shortpassages of text along with five comprehension questionsthat prompt students to identify and effectively cite textevidenceA variety of genresComprehension-helpercards that provide kid-friendly definitions, tips,and examples to help students master reading skillsOn each of the 100 text cards there is a passageof age-appropriate text with an illustration and five comprehensionquestions related to the passage. The 10 differentquestions types in this fiction box are:Cause and Effect- Questions focused on an event or action that makes somethinghappen in a story and the result or consequence of that event oraction. Character - Questions focused on the charactersof a story Compare and Contrast - Questions focused onlooking closely at two or more things (characters, settings, plots,etc.) to see how they are similar. And looking closely at twoor more things to see how they are different.Conflictand Resolution - Questions focused on the main problem of a storyand the solution to, or outcome of, the problem or conflict. Notall resolutions are happy ones.Inference - Drawing a conclusionabout a story based on clues in the text and your own backgroundknowledge.Point of view - Questions about the storyperspective i.e. looking at pronouns etc.Prediction- Using what you know from the text to make a sensible guess aboutwhat will happen later on in a story.Setting - Questionsfocused on the settings of a story. Theme - Questionsfocused on the big idea or message of a story. A theme is conveyedby title, setting and symbols. It can also be conveyed by howits characters act, learn and change.Tone - Questions focusedon the way the narrator feels about the events, settings andcharacters in a story.The fifth question on eachcard will be a S-T-R-E-T-C-H question, a creative thinkingquestion such as writing sentences using words/phrases from thestory, describing something from the story, explaining what mighthappen next, describing a real-life event that's connected to thestory, asking an opinion on the story or character from the story.Age-appropriatehelper cards provide backgroundinformation to help children respond knowledgeably to the comprehensionquestions. There are 14 helper cards in this boxcovering: Cause and EffectCharacterCompareand ContrastConflict and ResolutionContextCluesFiction TextFigurative LanguageInferencePointof ViewPredictionSettingTextEvidenceThemeToneAlsoincludes a Teacher's Booklet to provide ideas on how to usethe cards and answers.
