Activities

Below are 5 comprehension activities that teachers can incorporate into their literacy lessons to support student learning.

1.) Big Fox

Big Fox is an activity that will help aid students in gaining good comprehension skills as they are reading though an notfiction text. Big Fox is broken down into 6 different categories, B-bold, I-italics, G- graphics, F- facts, O- opinions, X- x marks the stop(main point). This activity get students to enage in the reading by getting them to pull inmportant infromation from the text as they are reading.

To complete this activity student will be given a big fox worksheet. as we are reading though the text together the students will have to list in the the first box(B) all of the bold words they see as we are reading the text, they will aslo have to list all of the italicized words/phrases(box I), decribe any graphics(pictures, drawings, maps..etc)(box G), list any facts they read(box F), list any opionion they gathered(box O), and lastly in a couple of sentences write what they believe the main idea of the text is(box X).

2.) KWL

The KWL chart is a activity that enages students in new topics, activate proir knowlege, and monitor students learning. this activity improves a students ability to learn efficiently and retain what they have learned. The KWL activity is broken up into 3 different categories, know, wonder, and learned.

To complete this activity the teacher will give each students a KWL chart. before the teacher begans to teacher the lesson they will have the students write in the know section what they think they already know about the topic they will be discussing and learning. As they are going though the lesson the teacher will have the students write in the wonder section questions they have gathered while learning about the lesson. At the end of the lesson the teacher will have the students write in the learned section what they have learned after the lesson. This lesson will help students with connecting there proir knowlege to new knowlege learned as well as aiding them in comprehending what they just learned.

3.) Five Finger Retell

The five finger retell is an activity that will help students improve their retelling skills as well as improve there comprehension skills . This activity will help students recall inportant details from a story that they have just read. The five finger retell chart is broken into 5 categories, the characters(1), the setting(2), the begining(or first(3)), the middle(or next(4)), and lastly the end(or last(5)).

To complete this acitivy the teacher will give the students a 5 finger retell chart, as the teacher is reading the story the students will be tasked with complete the charts. On the first finger the students must list every important character mentioned in the reading. On the second finger the students must decribe the setting in which the story is taken place, so the where the story is being taken place, when the story is taken place, and what environment is the story being taken in. On the third finger the students must decribe the begining of the story(what is happening at the begining of the story). On the forth finger the sudents must decribe what is happening in the middle of the story. And lastly on the fifth finger the students must decribe what is happening at the end of the story. once the students have completed the chart they will be able to retell the story to their peers or teacher.

4.) Wanted Poster

The wanted poster is an fun activity that will help imporve a students reading comprehension. This activity will enure that th students have a good understanding of the story that is being read as well as demonstates their knowledge of character traits.

To complete this activity the students will be given a wanted poster worksheet. We will then read though a story. Once we have finished reading though the story the students will have to create a poster identifying the bad guy from the story (the antagonist). The students will ahve to use key detials they gather from the story inoder to decribe and draw the bad guy.

5.) Question Ball

Question ball is an activity that will engage students in improving their comprehension skills, as well as improving their retelling skills. This activity encourages students to answer questions about key details they have learned about the reading. questions like "who were the main characters?", "what happened in the begining of the story?". This activity will help students recall inportant details from a story that they have just read.

To complete this activity you will need a beach ball(or any soft ball) on this ball you will wirte different key questions with in each differnet section of the ball. You will now begin reading the story. After completing the story you will have your students stand up from there chairs. You will then begin to throw the ball to students. when students catch the ball they have to read the questions that is ontop of the ball. After answering the question the student will throw the ball to once of his peers. You will continue this acitivity until each student got a turn to catch the ball and asnwer a question.

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