Non-fiction Ages 6-7

This box of comprehension cards covers:High-interest shortpassages of text along with four 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 skillsOneach of the 100 text cards there is a passageof age-appropriate text with an illustration and four comprehensionquestions related to the passage. The 10 different questionstypes in this non-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. Description - Questions focused on when words areused to create a 'picture' in the mind.Details - Literalquestions, which you may remember from reading the text andcan answer straight away. Questions to show that you have read/understoodthe text.Main Idea - Questions focused on the bigidea or message of a story. A theme is conveyed by title, settingand symbols. It can also be conveyed by how its characters act,learn and change.Problem and Solution - Questions focusedon the main problem of a story and the solution to, or outcomeof, the problem or conflict. Not all resolutions are happy ones.Questionsyou would ask the author - Questions focusedon the reason the author chose to write a text. Authors may writewith more than one purpose in mind.Sequence of Events- Questions focused on the plot and the order of events in a plot(beginning, middle, end).Similarities and Differences- Questions focused on looking closely at two or more things (characters,settings, plots, etc.) to see how they are similar. Andlooking closely at two or more things to see how they are different.SummariseVocabulary - Questions focused onhints that readers use to work out the meaning of an unknown wordin a text. Context clues can come before or after the unknown word.The fourth question on each card will be a S-T-R-E-T-C-Hquestion, a creative thinking question such as writingsentences using words/phrases from the story, describing somethingfrom the story, explaining what might happen next, describinga real-life event that's connected to the story, asking anopinion on the story or character from the story.Age-appropriatehelper cards provide background information to helpchildren respond knowledgeably to the comprehension questions. Thereare 14 helper cards in this box covering:Causeand effectCompare and contrastContext cluesDebateDescriptionDetailsceInformationtextMain idea and detailsProblemand solutionSequence of eventsSummariseTextevidenceVocabularyAlso includesa Teacher's Booklet to provide ideas on how to use thecards and answers.