Hello families! 

Comprehension is an essential part of your student's reading growth. Here are some reading comprehension thinking stems and responses you can discuss with your student after your nightly 20 minutes of reading. Encourage your student to answer or respond to one or two of the prompts below. 

Set a Purpose for Reading

• I’m reading this because…

• When I open a fiction/non-fiction text I can expect____.

• I will be looking for…

• This helped me as a reader…

• I learned ____ about myself as a fiction reader…

• This strategy helped me as a reader…

Access and Use Prior Knowledge

• This makes me think of ____ because ____.

• This reminds me of ____ because ____.

• Now I know …

• Read to find text to text connections…

• How did your schema help you as a reader?

Visualize

• The word ____ tells me ____.

• The movie in my mind looks like…

• The picture in my mind was ____ now it is ____.

• I’m visualizing ____ because ____.

• This picture makes me think ____ because ____.

Text Structure

• The author included ____ because ____.

• My prediction is…

• I can infer the author used ____ because ____.

• My prediction was right/wrong and I learned…

Summarize

• I can summarize my thinking by…

• The main idea is…

• The most important thing is ____ because ____.

• I can retell the story in my own words…

Synthesizing

• I used to think ____. Now I think ____.

• My thinking has changed because…

• The facts helped me to learn…

• When I put my thinking together I learned…