Reading Comprehension Lessons For Primary-Elementary Students

Reading comprehension lessons for primarymore closely at the characters by asking these
elementary students that you can do with anyquestions. Who are the main characters? Draw
text.them and write two sentences describing them.
1. Dictionary Meaning - Select a paragraph of aWrite another two sentences describing what
text and ask your students to circle the wordsthey do in the story. You could fold a page or
that you don't know the meaning of (or the classpaper in half. On each half draw a character and
can choose them as a whole). If there are notwrite the information underneath.
enough of these, include words that could have an4. Another Point of View- Rewrite a well known
alternative. Look these words up in a dictionarystory or a story that the class is reading from
and write down their meaning. Then, rewrite thethe point of view of one of the characters. The
whole text using the words found in the dictionarythree little pigs becomes a very different story if
as replacements.it is told by the wolf or the grandmother.
For example, "Spring came, and the silver tracks5. Acting Up - This works well with lower grades
of the railway began to push out beyond thewhen you are reading a short story or picture
village and into the fastness of the great steppe"book. As characters are introduced, ask students
becomes "The trees began to bud, and the silverto act out what is happening. If you are doing the
parallel lines of the railway began to push out pastthree little pigs, you should end up with three
the small community and into the stronghold ofstudents cowering in the brick house with a wolf
the vast grasslands."blowing on the outside. The students get really
2. Conversation - Take any story or part of ainvolved and you will find that even the
story and asks your students to rewrite it as adays-dreamers stay on task, which is useful when
conversation.you want to use the text as a lead into another
3. Character Focus - Take any story and lookactivity.