| These reading comprehension activities are | | | | Eats. |
| designed for primary/elementary students. | | | | Now fill in the grid with the appropriate answers. |
| 1. Home Sweet Home | | | | For example, for the First Pig in the Three Little |
| Ask your students to do the following. Choose | | | | Pigs, I would write, |
| three characters from the story you are | | | | Lives - in a stick house, |
| exploring and draw the house they live in. If they | | | | Age - Not sure but fairly young, |
| all live in the same house then draw their room. | | | | Likes - building houses and visiting his brothers, |
| Make sure you include personal items that show | | | | Dislikes - wolves, |
| the individual nature of each character. Here are | | | | Eats - just about anything. |
| some things that you could include: a lounge chair | | | | If you have more room or want to use another |
| and table (show what's on it), bookcase (show | | | | page, you can add headings of your own. |
| what type of books are read), television (show | | | | 3. All Mixed Up |
| what program is on), kitchen table with food, | | | | Choose 1 or 2 paragraphs from the story your |
| bathroom (toothbrush, toothpaste, shampoo, | | | | class is exploring and write all of the sentences on |
| soap), bed with stuffed toys, pets, and garden. | | | | the board in a jumbled order. Your students can |
| 2. Grid Work | | | | then write them out, in the correct order, in their |
| Ask your students to do the following. Write the | | | | workbooks. If you have the time, you could type |
| name of each character in the story you are | | | | or write the jumbled sentences onto an A4 piece |
| reading on the far left hand side of your page; | | | | of paper. Make enough copies for your students |
| use a new line for each character. Now use a | | | | so that they can then cut them out, arrange |
| ruler to draw 5 columns on the right hand side of | | | | them in the correct order and glue them into their |
| the names. This is simple if you just make them | | | | workbooks. If you have a number of bright |
| the width of the ruler. At the top of the columns | | | | student in your class you could ask one or two of |
| write these headings: Lives, Age, Likes, Dislikes, | | | | them to create the jumbled version. |