Comprehension Grades K-2

1. My Child Can Read All The Words:Now What? Comprehension Grades K-2 Presented by: Sandra Harvey and Pamela Charity Reading Specialists April 3, 2014

3. What Is Comprehension? • Comprehension is being able to understand and discuss what is being read. If a child does not understand what is being read, he/she is not really reading.

4. Kindergarten Before: • Use pictures to take a “picture walk” and predict what the story will be about. During: • Use pictures to figure out tricky words. After: • Tell who it was about. • Tell where it happened. • Tell who the characters are. • Tell important events in order from beginning, middle and end of the story.

5. 1st Grade – Focus is mostly on Fiction Before: • Use pictures to tell what the story will say without reading the words. During: • Fix reading errors, especially when they don’t make sense. After: • Retell at least 5 events in order including character names, setting, problem and solution. • Make connections to better understand character feelings, choices they make, setting, problem, solution and story ending. • Determine the most important event or lesson of the story, and tell why it is important. Give a good reason.

6. 2ndGrade – Fiction and Non-Fiction After Reading a Page or Two: • Describe characters. • Predict what will happen in the middle/end. • Use text features, such as table of contents, to predict what might be learned. During: • Correct reading errors when they do not make sense (Fiction and Non-Fiction). • Use index/glossary/interpret maps, diagrams and other text features.

7. 2nd Grade After: • 5 finger retell—Retell the story. Include the characters, setting, problem, important events and story ending. • Make connections. • Share at least 2 details from each section. • Locate information in the text to answer questions. • Tell the most important thing learned and why it is important. Fiction Non-fiction

8. Ways of talking to your kids about what they read Searching for and Using Information • Think about who is talking now. • What were some of the important events that happened? Summarizing • Tell what you know so far in the story. • Tell what you read. Predicting • So now what are you thinking? • Based on what you know about _ _ _, what are you wondering? • Think about what you know. What do you think will happen next? Inferring • That is what the writer/character said. What did he/she mean? • How do you know _ _ _ has changed? • Why do you think _ _ _ did that? • Talk about what the character said or did. What does that tell you about the character?

9. “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”~Emilie Buchwald