Reading Comprehension 1st / 2nd Class

Description

1.Swimming

2. Pets

3.A Trip to Tayto Park

4.The Zoo

5.Cats

6.The Butterfly

7.A Visit to the Dentist

8.Dinosaurs

9.A Rainy Day

10. Ben’s Dog

11.Bats

12.The Animal Party

13.A Visit to the Doctor

14.A Camping Trip

15.Fun at the Beach

16.The Farm

17.An Accident

18.Apples

19.The Hedgehog

20.The Big Match

21.Anna’s Party

22.The New Baby

23.The Polar Bear

24.A Trip to the Woods

25.Autumn

26.Halloween

27.Pumpkins

28.Ben’s Big Surprise

29.The Playground

30.Winter

31.The Robin

32.The New Bike

33.Whales

34.The Lion

35.The Elephant

36.Snow Day

37.The New Teacher

38.The Storm

39.Dogs

40.The Sahara Desert

41.Fruit

42.Soil

43.The Missing Poppet

44.Christmas Eve

45.Antarctica

46.The Arctic Fox

47.The Arctic

48    Trees

49 Spring

50  Summer

This comprehension resource was created for first class pupils. Second class pupils could use it as a form of revision. There are fifty comprehensions in total. If you do one a day it allows for ten weeks worth of work. I do a comprehension every morning with my class. I display the comprehension on the interactive whiteboard. We read it together aloud as a class. We answer the questions orally, then the children do the questions in their copies. I write the answers on the whiteboard for some of the children to transcribe. The comprehensions are based on a variety of topics and are relevant to the lives of children attending school in Ireland.

The passages help to encourage reading fluency. They are differentiated with some being more challenging than others. The passages can be used in:

A whole group setting

Small groups ( differentiated stations)

As a homework activity

Independently ( for some children)

High frequency words are used throughout the passages and the questions are simple and text based. Simple inferential questions are asked and many have multiple choice or true or false options. There are words with inflectional endings (s, ed, ing) and decodable words are also used throughout the texts. The passages are a mixture of fact and fiction and some overlap with SESE too.

Through this resource the following comprehension strategies will be taught:

1.Activate prior knowledge

2.Prediction skills

3.Identifying the main idea

4.Making inferences

5.Visualising

6.Retelling

7.Skimming

8.Scanning

9.Determining importance

10.Connecting and comparing.