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Hi everyone, I wanted to share one of my favorite ways to get students more engaged during comprehension activities: layering questions. When I use a short story or passage, I ask three types of questions, if I can. But it depends on the student. I do not always use them all at once.
Even if your student is not ready for inferential questions yet, connection questions work for everyone. Making a personal connection between what is happening in the story and what is happening in their own life is important for all students. It really shows you care about their lived experience too. Anytime you can get those connections between home and school/speech room, it deepens the discussion and it promotes generalization as well. Kids who need more buy-in benefit too because maybe just maybe they start to see how stories relate to them. If you want ready-made passages that follow this same framework, I created these 50 Reading Comprehension Passages Task Cards that include literal, inferential, and connection questions. Try it this week. Ask one question that helps your student make a connection to real life and see how much more they open up. Enjoy the start of a new month! Thank you, β β β |
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