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Practise Close Reading Comprehension: The Kingfisher & Dinosaurs (6-9 years)

An educational teaching resource from Guinea Pig Education entitled Practise Close Reading Comprehension: The Kingfisher & Dinosaurs (6-9 years) downloadable at Teach Simple.
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Reading

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Grade 2, 3, 4, 5

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PDF

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Practise Close Reading Comprehension: The Kingfisher & Dinosaurs (6-9 years)

This comprehensive teaching resource is designed to hone the fundamental reading comprehension skills of Grade 2 to Grade 5 students. This unique educational tool caters specifically to developing age-appropriate language arts proficiency, with a particular focus on reading.

This resource brings together two distinct yet challenging themes – 'The Kingfisher' and 'Dinosaurs'. Each theme offers an engaging article for the child to read followed by a sequence of thought-provoking questions. These questions aim not just at fact retrieval but also invoke detailed explanation and self-assessment of what the writer implies. This multi-layered approach promotes critical thinking in young learners while reinforcing their understanding of the text.

Vocabulary Building

Understanding vocabulary is crucial for comprehensive comprehension, therefore this learning material incorporates targeted exercises that encourage children to search for words or phrases synonymous with those used in the document. By doing so, it effectively bolsters their lexical reserves and comprehension abilities simultaneously.

Creative Writing

An additional interesting feature is that this teaching tool encourages young learners to write their original non-fiction piece - an exercise that fosters creativity while ensuring assimilation of information learnt from prior text reading, thus bringing into play both interpretative and expressive elements.

Punctuation practice exercises

  • Capital letters usage,
  • Full stops positioning,
  • Question marks - essential tools in written English.

The resources are conveniently packaged as printable PDF files which makes them easy-to-use across different settings such as whole group class lessons, small group work or even as homework assignments. Evaluation mechanisms are also provided through included answers making assessments hassle-free!

Final Words

To sum up; Practise Close Reading Comprehension: The Kingfisher & Dinosaurs (6-9 years) serves not only as robust training material aiming solid knowledge foundation but is also exploratory and stimulating in conducting a mini topic or project. It indeed caters to the reading proficiency needs of learners while still making comprehension enjoyable! Your students will appreciate this novel approach to literacy instruction.

What's Included

33 pages

Resource Tags

reading comprehension language arts vocabulary critical thinking non-fiction writing

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