Comprehension Cards

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Comprehension Cards

• Print these questions out using different color
  paper for each section, e.g.
• Expository before red
• Expository during blue
• Expository after yellow
• Narrative before green
• Narrative during orange
• Narrative after purple

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Expository text

• designed to explain or provide information
• seems to lead to more word learning.
• typically defines words, provide examples, and
  provides illustrations
• Six of the more important types of expository
  texts enumeration-description, time sequence,
  explanation-process, compare-contrast,
  problem-solution, and cause-effect

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What does the title tell me?

• Expository before reading

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What do I already know about the topic?

• Expository before reading

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What do the pictures tell me?

• Expository before reading

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What do I want to learn about?

• Expository before reading

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Does this make sense?

• Expository during reading

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What have I learned so far?

• Expository during reading

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What questions do I still have?

• Expository during reading

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What new words did I learn?

• Expository after reading

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What was this mainly about?

• Expository after reading

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What did I learn?

• Expository after reading

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What else do I want to know about _____________?

• Expository after reading

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Narrative texts

• tell a story
• creates a story grammar

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What does the title tell me about the story?

• Narrative before reading

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What do the pictures tell me?

• Narrative before reading

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What do I already know about ______________?

• Narrative before reading

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Who?

• Narrative during reading

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What?

• Narrative during reading

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When?

• Narrative during reading

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Where?

• Narrative during reading

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Why?

• Narrative during reading

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How?

• Narrative during reading

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What do I think will happen next?

• Narrative during reading

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Who were the main characters?

• Narrative after reading

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What was the setting?

• Narrative after reading

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What was the problem?

• Narrative after reading

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How was the problem solved?

• Narrative after reading

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Why did _________________ do _____________________
_______?

• Narrative after reading

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Graphic Organizers
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