Students study words in the news. They explore vocabulary including "climate change" and discuss its meanings and related meanings. They read a text about climate change and carbon dioxide emissions and answer questions. They complete...

Students read a newspaper article about, kids buying lunch by using their finger print scans. They engage in comprehension questions asked out loud by the teacher. They participate in two different activities that are included in this...

Fourth graders comprehend what they are reading. An effective strategy for comprehension is summarization. They single out and explaining the main ideas of a passage. Students find a sentence or rewrite their own that covers...

Young scholars practice writing questions on a selected topic. Students discuss questioning skills. They browse through books and magazines, review their textbooks, watch a film, or participate in a similar experience that will provide...

Students discover strategies to help them better understand the stories they read. As a familiar story is read to the class, individuals practice answering basic questions about the main characters, settings, problems, etc. while...

Students demonstrate comprehension of reading material. They preview questions and then read silently. Students answer questions and write a short summary of the text they read.

Students listen to a story about a goat who craves human food. They discover the four basic food groups and discuss what they might eat if they were terrible eaters. Students retell the story by looking at the pictures. They complete...

Students participate in word work and vocabulary building before reading an online article. They complete worksheets or an online quiz the focuses on homographs. They write a diary entry.

Learners read Chapters 6-11 from Where the Red Fern Grows and, in pairs, answer comprehension questions on a worksheet. They share and discuss their answers.

Learners examine and participate in an inquiry process. They brainstorm recall, comprehension, and synthesis questions for a research topic, and write the questions on sentence strips.

Students demonstrate understanding of main points of the Deseret News article, and identify the verb(s) of each phrase to aid in listening comprehension.

In this comprehension instructional activity, students read a page about the unicellular organisms called euglena and complete 10 short answer questions.

Students explore critical thinking strategies. In this critical thinking lesson, students evaluate multiple choice answers. Students note similarities between incorrect answers and discover how to compare and contrast incorrect and...

In this ESL reading comprehension passage, students read a short passage and complete a set of 2 short answer questions and a questions about locations of things discussed in the paragraph.

In this ESL comprehension worksheet, students read or listen to a passage, complete warm-up activities, then a wide variety of before, during, after and homework activities. Answers are included.

In this ESL comprehension worksheet, students read or listen to the passage, then complete a variety of warm up, before listening/reading, while reading/listening, listening, after reading, homework and discussion activities. 

In this place vocabulary learning exercise, students read the terms for each example and write a short sentence describing what can be done in each of the places.

In this comprehension worksheet, students read about the 2002 Winter Olympic Canadian pair skaters, then answer 2 short answer and 6 multiple choice questions.

Students comprehension should be a major emphasis when studying how to read. They summarize as one effective strategy that helps students comprehend what they are reading. Students build summarization skills that build comprehension...

Students remember that the main purpose of reading is to comprehend what they have read as they read a section in their history book with the expectation that they answer questions at the end. They answer comprehension questions using...

Sixth graders explore the uses of herbal plants. They read the book Pharmacy in the Forest and discuss the vocabulary words that pertain to the structure of a plant. Students create a summary of what they have read and watch a video on...

Fourth graders complete a comprehensive review of a reading selection. Through various activities, 4th graders practice pre, during, and after reading strategies. At the culmination of the unit, students summarize their reading and...

Teacher will read the story Casey and the Amazing Good Finder and ask comprehension questions and begin a discussion on the effect of labels and how the story relates to their lives and how they can prevent the use of negative labels.

Students make predictions regarding the subject of a news article, based on its title. They read the article and discuss it, answering various comprehension and thought questions.