Primary comprehension – Literal, Inferential, Applied Book A – Ages 5–6

Description

Full of funny, suspenseful, horrifying and exciting texts, Primary comprehension is an educational adventure students won’t want to end! With a wide array of literal, inferential and applied comprehension questions, this series is essential for every teacher’s collection. Each book contains twenty different texts from a variety of genres. These include humour, fantasy, a myth/legend, folktale, mystery, adventure, horror/supernatural, fairytale, play, fable, science fiction, poetry and informational texts/nonfiction such as as a timetable, letter, report, procedure, poster, map, program, book cover and cartoon.

Three levels of questions are used to indicate the reader's comprehension of each text.

Literal questions ('Right there') are those which can be found directly in the text. These come first in the questions and are grouped.
Inferential questions ('Think and search') follow the literal questions. Inferential questions are implied in the text and require the reader to think a bit more deeply about what had just been read.
Applied questions ('On my own') require the reader to think even further about the text and incorporate his/her personal experiences and knowledge to answer.

One or more particular comprehension strategies has been chosen for practice with each text. Rarely does a reader use a single strategy to comprehend a text. The strategies included in these books are predicting, making connections, comparing, sensory imaging, determining importance, skimming, scanning, synthesising and paraphrasing/summarising.

Features:

student texts written in particular genres
three levels of questioning
specific student activities to utilise or practise appropriate comprehension strategies
indicators
worksheet information for teachers
answers
extension activities usually involving texts written in the same genre
text indicators to show three different levels of questioning
genre definitions
comprehension strategy definitions
explanations of three levels of questioning