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Unit Plan
Applying Reading Comprehension Strategies Unit Plan
8 x Lessons | Suitable for Grades: 2 - 6This reading unit is designed to explicitly teach the reading comprehension strategies of activating prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, monitoring, predicting, inferring, visualizing, and summarizing to elementary students, with a focus on literary texts.
It consists of 8 lessons of approximately 60 minutes duration.
These lessons may be taught as a complete unit of work, or they must be taught individually as stand-alone lessons.
The sequence of lessons and suggested time frames should be regarded as a guide only; teachers should pace lessons in accordance with the individual learning needs of their class.
Teachers are encouraged to collect samples of students’ work throughout the unit to reflect their learning journey.
This unit plan includes the following resources:
- Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint – Activating Prior Knowledge
- Five Senses Graphic Organizer
- Activating Prior Knowledge – Comprehension Strategy Task Cards
- Icebreaker Game – Human Bingo
- Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint – Making Connections
- Comprehension – Tia’s Tantrum
- Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint – Questioning
- Inference Scenarios Teaching Resource Pack
- 5 W’s and 1 H Graphic Organizer – Portrait
- Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint – Monitoring
- Monitoring Comprehension Worksheet
- Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint – Predicting
- Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint – Inferring
- Inference Comics
- Birthday Invitation – Inferencing Activity
- Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint – Visualizing
- Readers’ Theater Script – Solar Force Five
- Reading Comprehension Strategies PowerPoint – Summarizing
- Summarizing a Fiction Text – Graphic Organizer
Overview
Objectives
- To learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of activating prior knowledge.
- To learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of making connections.
- To learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of questioning.
- To learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of monitoring.
- To learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of predicting.
- To learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of inferring.
- To learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of visualizing.
- To learn and apply the reading comprehension strategy of summarizing.
Preparing for Learning
Prior to beginning the unit, develop a reading comprehension strategies display in the classroom. Display posters and learning goals to stimulate the students’ interest and assist in their learning throughout the unit. To help the students remember the strategies they have learned, provide them with a Super Six Reading Comprehension Strategies Bookmark. For examples of teaching resources to display in your classroom, browse the Super Six Comprehension Strategies collection on the Teach Starter website.
Ensure that the students have access to a range of literary texts in the classroom for the duration of the unit.
Some of the resources which accompany this unit plan will need to be prepared prior to teaching. For this reason, it is advised that teachers browse through all lessons before commencing the unit.
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What book or books would you suggest to use inline with this lesson?
Caleb Von · Jun 4th, 2021
Hi Caleb, we don’t have a specific book to recommend for this, but having a variety of texts available is a good starting point! You can find some of our favourite texts in our blogs at https://www.teachstarter.com/search/?query=books&refinementList%5BpostTypeTitle%5D%5B0%5D=Blog
Trish (Teach Starter) · Jun 10th, 2021
Found it!
ELD678 · Aug 7th, 2019
Ahh, great to hear. If there is anything else I can assist you with, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Kristian · Aug 8th, 2019
What reading grade level is this lesson?
ELD678 · Aug 7th, 2019
Hi there,
The tasks included in this unit vary from Grades 4 to 6 in their scope. As the skills are based around activating prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, monitoring, predicting, inferring, visualising and summarising, the skills can be taught at higher and higher levels to allow for differentiation between abilities.
If there is anything else I can assist you with, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Kristian · Aug 8th, 2019