If your looking to improve your student’s comprehension skills and at the same time, work on items from the CAFE menu during Daily 5, you might be interested in these Reading Comprehension Worksheets and Book Companions. I say companion, because these activities can be used with ANY book in the context of your whole group, small group reading interventions or Daily 5 Cafe mini-lessons. It was written to address both the CAFE menu and Common Core Standards. You can call it a combo!
Here are just a few of the comprehension worksheets:
As you can see, this packet covers so many reading skills! I especially like that it also encourages written response to reading. There are comprehension worksheets that are the perfect fit for just about any fiction story or nonfiction text!
These activities, for both fiction and informational text, will also help to prepare your students for standardized tests and may be used as a formative assessment at any time. They are the perfect reproducible worksheets and can be used with any book!
What’s included in this comprehension packet?
What types of skills might be important for students to develop to improve reading comprehension? Quite a few actually! To be sure to touch on all of them, there are practice activities in this reading resource that include a page for each of the following strategies and MORE:
~Making Predictions (based on book title and cover)
~Making Predictions (based on prior knowledge, problem, characters, clue words, pictures…)
~Accuracy of Predictions
~Character Traits
~Character Development
~Characters in Action
~Create a New Character
~Nonfiction Text Features Hunts
~Significant Event
~Making connections~ Text to Text, Text to Self
~Making Inferences
~Favorite Part
~Author’s Purpose and Central Message
~Retelling Assessment
~Story Elements
~Writing a Summary
~Comparing Stories
~Point of View
~Craft and Structure
~Main Idea and Supporting Details
~Identifying Genre
~Cause and Effect
~Questioning
~Expanding Vocabulary/ Interesting Words
~Non-fiction Text Features Assessment
~High-Frequency Words Writing Practice
~Visualizing and Making a Mental Image
~Somebody, Wanted, But, So…
~Beginning, Middle, End
~Determining Importance
~Cut and Paste Activities
~Dice Activity~ Rollin Through the Story
~What a Mess! Solutions to a Problem
Download the preview file for a closer look at many of the pages.
Students have the opportunity to read, respond in writing and by drawing pictures. It is best suited for high-achieving first graders, second graders at all levels and third graders who need some review of comprehension skills.
What teachers are saying:
I will get soooo much mileage out of this product. It has everything!
Shirley D.
This is exactly what I was looking for to supplement our CAFE strategies! I love how it has different options and levels for strategies too!
Gabby S.
If you’d like to see more of what is inside, click on the picture to see it in my shop!
Happy teaching!
Thanks for reading along! If you are looking for more reading ideas, you may also enjoy these posts:
Reading Ideas and Teaching Resources for the Elementary Classroom
