Want to boost your readers' comprehension skills and strategies? Look to these five pages, each with a short story and questions to answer covering main idea, facts, sequence of events, context clues, conclusions, and making inferences. 

Concepts

responding to reading, short answer questions, main ideas, facts, context clues, sequence of events, inferences, making inferences, conclusions

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Divide your class into six groups, give each group one page to complete. When all questions have been answered, call on groups to share their work and explain their progress 
• Create anchor charts for each term: main idea, facts, sequence of events, context clues, conclusions, and making inferences
• Assign some pages as classwork and others as homework for continued practice

Classroom Considerations

• Copies are required 
• Class members should be familiar with identifying the main idea, facts, sequence of events, context clues, drawing conclusions, and making inferences 

Pros

• Instructions are clear and simple
• Answer key is included
• A list of learning objectives covered by the resource is provided

Cons

• Reading and answering questions for multiple pages may become redundant and might cause loss of engagement 

Common Core

RL.2.1 RL.2.2 RL.2.3 RL.3.1 RL.3.2 RL.3.3