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 eventor action. Character - Questions focused on the characters of a story Compare and Contrast - Questions focused on looking closelyat two or more things (characters, settings, plots, etc.) to seehow they are similar. And looking closely at two or more thingsto see how they are different.Conflict and Resolution- Questions focused on the main problem of a story and the solutionto, or outcome of, the problem or conflict. Not all resolutionsare happy ones.Inference - Questions focused on drawinga conclusion based on clues in the text and your own backgroundknowledge.Point of view - Questions about the story perspectivei.e. looking at pronouns etc.Prediction - Questionsfocused on using what you know from the text to make a sensibleguess about what will happen later on in a story.Setting- Questions focused on the settings of a story. Theme- Questions focused on the big idea or message of a story. Atheme is conveyed by title, setting and symbols. It can also be conveyedby how its characters act, learn and change.Tone- Questions focused on the way the narrator feels about the events,settings and characters in a story.The fifth questionon each card will be a S-T-R-E-T-C-H question, a creativethinking question such as writing sentences using words/phrasesfrom the story, describing something from the story, explainingwhat might happen next, describing a real-life event that'sconnected to the story, asking an opinion on the story or characterfrom the story.Age-appropriate helper cards providebackground information to help children respond knowledgeablyto the comprehension questions. There are 14 helper cardsin this box covering: Cause and EffectCharacterCompareand ContrastConflict and ResolutionContextCluesFiction TextFigurative LanguageInferencePointof ViewPredictionSettingTextEvidenceThemeToneAlsoincludes a Teacher's Booklet to provide ideason how to use the cards and answers.
