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Comprehension Activities

Practice in comprehension skills may be provided by the suggested activities which


follow:
1. Ask questions to help students understand what they have read. First, ask factual
(literal) questions orally. If students have sufficient vocabulary, questions can be written
on the board or on worksheets.
2. Give students a selection without any title. Ask them to suggest an appropriate title or
titles for the selection.
3. Have students list all the facts that can be found in a given paragraph.
4. Present a reading selection which contains a series of actions or events. Ask students
to read the material to find what happened first, next, and last. Give the events at
random and have the students number them in the correct order.
5. Give students a few simple directions. Have them carry out the instructions and
check to see how well the students understood.
6. Give strips of paper on which short sentences have been written. Have students
arrange them in the correct sequence to tell a sensible story.
7. Write several sentences in which an important word is missing from each one. Have
students write in a word or words which will make sense.
8. Give students sentences containing figurative language and supply three or four
alternative meanings. Have students choose which meaning is the correct one.
9. Help students read between the lines by giving them a paragraph to read and then
asking a series of questions about things which are not definitely stated in the
paragraph.
10. Use old, discarded reading texts by taking them apart and dividing them into short
selections. Cut each selection into paragraphs and put them in a small box. Ask the
students to arrange the paragraphs in the proper sequence to tell the story.
11. Cut out news stories of interest from periodicals and magazines. Laminate them so
they can be reused. Ask students to find facts, draw inferences, to note figurative use of
language action words, expressions of opinion, descriptive terms or any other variety of
purposes you may have.
12. Give practice in anticipating what a reading selection is about by giving only the
title and then asking students to predict what the author will write.

13. Show how punctuation can help comprehension by groups or pairs of identical
sentences with different punctuation. (George is a curious boy. George is a curious
boy?)
14. Give students sentences in which many illustrations of the five senses are provided.
Have students sort the words according to the sense described.
15. Give a news story which contains several sets of facts. Ask students to answer the
Who, What, Where, Why, When of the story.
16. Prepare short paragraphs containing many details to support the main idea. Put an
irrelevant detail among the supporting ones and ask students to identify and underline
the detail which does not belong.
17. Ask students to choose parts of sentences which express rage, love, fear, disgust, or
other emotions. (Showing not telling in writing).
18. Have students find outcomes of actions so that cause and effect relationships may be
understood.Comprehension skills depend upon two major factors: the background of
experiences from which concepts have been acquired, and the speed, accuracy, and
richness of meanings which students bring to word recognition.

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