This box of comprehension cards covers:

High-interest short
passages of text along with five comprehension questions
that prompt students to identify and effectively cite text
evidence
A variety of genres
Comprehension-helper
cards that provide kid-friendly definitions, tips,
and examples to help students master reading skills


On each of the 100 text cards there is a passage
of age-appropriate text with an illustration and five comprehension
questions related to the passage. The 10 different
questions types in this fiction box are:



Cause and Effect
- Questions focused on an event or action that makes something
happen in a story and the result or consequence of that event or
action.
Character - Questions focused on the characters
of a story

Conflict and Resolution - Questions focused on the main problem
of a story and the solution to, or outcome of, the problem or
conflict. Not all resolutions are happy ones.
Figurative
Language - Questions focused on words and phrases that mean something
different from what the words actually say.
Inference
- Drawing a conclusion about a story based on clues in the text
and your own background knowledge.
Prediction - Using what
you know from the text to make a sensible guess about what will
happen later on in a story.
Setting - Questions focused
on the settings of a story.
Text Evidence - Questions focused
on exact words, phrases or sentences in a text that provide
information, answer a question or support a claim.
Theme
- Questions focused on the big idea or message of a story. A theme
is conveyed by title, setting and symbols. It can also be conveyed
by how its characters act, learn and change.
Vocabulary
- Hints that readers use to work out the meaning of an unknown
word in a text. Context clues can come before or after the unknown
word.

The fifth question on each card will be a
S-T-R-E-T-C-H question, a creative thinking question such
as writing sentences using words/phrases from the story, describing
something from the story, explaining what might happen next,
describing a real-life event that's connected to the story, asking
an opinion on the story or character from the story.

Age-appropriate
helper cards provide background information to
help children respond knowledgeably to the comprehension questions.
There are 10 helper cards in this box covering:

Cause
and Effect
Character
Conflict and Resolution
Context
Clues
Figurative Language
Inference
Prediction
Setting
Text
Evidence


Theme

Also includes a Teacher's Booklet to
provide ideas on how to use the cards and answers.