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
Compare and Contrast - Questions focused on
looking closely at two or more things (characters, settings, plots,
etc.) to see how they are similar. And looking closely at two
or more things to see how they are different.
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.
Inference - Drawing a conclusion
about a story based on clues in the text and your own background
knowledge.
Point of view - Questions about the story
perspective i.e. looking at pronouns etc.
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.
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.
Tone - Questions focused
on the way the narrator feels about the events, settings and
characters in a story.

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 14 helper cards in this box
covering:

Cause and Effect
Character
Compare
and Contrast
Conflict and Resolution
Context
Clues
Fiction Text
Figurative Language
Inference
Point
of View
Prediction
Setting
Text
Evidence
Theme
Tone

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