32-1010 Copyright © NewPath Learning. All rights reserved. www.newpathlearning.com Reading Comprehension: Reading Comprehension: STRATEGIES STRATEGIES \|xiBAHBDy01249ozX GRAPHICALLYTMabout Thinking 10 LAMINATED FLIP CHARTS Per Set – Use with a Dry-Erase Marker! WRITE-ON / WIPE-OFF WRITE-ON / WIPE-OFF
GRAPHICALLYabout Thinking TM Phone: 800-507-0966 • Fax: 800-507-0967 www.newpathlearning.com NewPath Learning® products are developed by teachers using research-based principles and are classroom tested. The company’s product line consists of an array of proprietary curriculum review games, workbooks, posters and other print materials. All products are supplemented with web-based activities, assessments and content to provide an engaging means of educating students on key, curriculum-based topics correlated to applicable state and national education standards. Copyright © 2009 NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Thinking GraphicallyTM About Reading Comprehension Flip Chart series consist of five flip chart sets, each covering a different facet of the current NCTE and IRA standards for reading comprehension. Designed to enhance and complement any reading program, the collection provides visual outlines to help students add breadth and depth to their comprehension skills. Each flip chart set provides a series of effective focal points for discussion, lesson models and explicit instruction. They also serve as a perfect foundation for learning center activities. Each Thinking GraphicallyTM Flip Chart Set features • 10 double-sided laminated charts, each 12” x 18”. Side 1 features student-friendly, “write-on/wipe-off” activity templates Side 2 displays completed examples and instructions • Spiral bound on a durable free-standing easel • Activity Guide with black-line copy-masters and suggested activities HOW TO USE Classroom Use Each Thinking GraphicallyTM About Flip Chart can be used for enhancing reading comprehension instruction. The front page of each flip chart contains a colorful graphic for visually organizing information related to topics and strategies of reading comprehension. The flip side pages provide classroom examples for completing the graphic organizer at the primary and intermediate levels. Note: Be sure to use an appropriate dry-erase marker and to test it on a small section of the chart prior to using it. The Activity Guide included provides a black-line master of each Flip Chart which students can use to fill in before, during or after instruction. For each chart, there is a suggested list of instructional lessons. Thinking GraphicallyTM About Reading Comprehension Flip Charts are a great supplement to any reading program. While the activities in the guide can be used in conjunction with the Flip Charts, they can also be used individually for review or as a form of assessment or in conjunction with any other related assignment. Learning Centers Each Flip Chart provides students with a variety of opportunities to visually comprehend what they have read. Students may use these Flip Charts in small group settings along with the corresponding activity pages contained in the guide to learn or review comprehension topics or strategies already covered during guided instruction. Independent student use Students can use the hands-on flip charts to practice and learn independently by creating their own graphic organizer using a book they have read. The graphic organizers are also ideal for assessment of topic or strategy understanding and application. Reference/Teaching resource Thinking GraphicallyTM Charts are a great supplement to any curriculum or they can be used in conjunction with NewPath’s Curriculum Mastery® Games. Chart # 1: Chart # 2: Chart # 3: Chart # 4: Chart # 5: Chart # 6: Chart # 7: Chart # 8: Chart # 9: Chart #10: STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! Four Square Crystal Ball Predictions Clipboard Cause & Ef fect Web of Details Event Chain Text-Connections By The Book QAR - Question-Answer Relationships In My Mind Reading Comprehension: Reading Comprehension: STRATEGIES STRATEGIES
What did you learn? What does it mean? What questions are left? Reading Comprehension: Reading Comprehension: STRATEGIES STRATEGIES Stop! Look! Listen! © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 93-6101 www.newpathlearning.com Purpose: Purpose Book Title _______________________________________
Purpose: Primary Examples Intermediate Examples What did you learn? What does it mean? What questions are left? What did you learn? What does it mean? What questions are left? Book Title:________________________________________ Swimmy by Leo Lionni Book Title:____________________________________ James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Fish swim in schools Teamwork pays off How do other animals stick together to stay alive? • James' parents died and he had to go live with his horrible aunts. • They didn't let him ever go out of the house. • He was really unhappy. • This story is going to be about how James gets away from his mean aunts. • Will the aunts somehow die? • Will something happen to the aunts to make them nice? • What might happen to James so he can get away from the aunts' house? © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 93-6101 www.newpathlearning.com Stop! Look! Listen!
Book Title _______________________________________ Reading Comprehension: Reading Comprehension: STRATEGIES STRATEGIES Four Square © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 93-6102 www.newpathlearning.com Purpose: Purpose Summarization Questions Clarification Predictions
Purpose: Primary Examples Intermediate Examples Summarization Questions Clarification Predictions Summarization Questions Clarification Predictions Book Title:________________________________________ Elena's Serenade by Campbell Geeslin Book Title:____________________________________ The Mouse and the Motocycle by Beverly Cleary Elena pretends she is a boy and runs away to become a glass blower. She helps everyone she meets along the way with her whistling. Her whistling helps her to be a wonderful glass blower. Her father lets her become a glass blower with him. This is a fantasy story. Animals don't talk. Elena could not blow all those fancy things without learning how. She could not trick her father into being an old man by pasting a tortilla to her chin. • Why did Elena want to become a glass blower so badly? • How did Elena learn to whistle so well? • Why couldn't girls become glass blowers? • Elena will become a famous glassblower. • Elena will take over her father's business. • Elena's father will be very proud of her. Keith meets a mouse living in a hotel room and teaches him how to ride his toy motorcycle. The mouse has many adventures on the motorcycle but his biggest adventure is when he tries to help Keith. Keith gives the mouse the motorcycle for being so brave and a good friend. • Will Keith and Ralph meet up in the sequel books? • Does Ralph have lots more adventures on his motorcycle? • Does Ralph ever get to go traveling out of the hotel and to far away places like he wanted? Only kids and other animals can hear Ralph talk. • Ralph’s family will get rides on his motorcycle. • Ralph will have lots more adventures on his motorcycle. © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 93-6102 www.newpathlearning.com Four Square
Page ________ Page ________ Page ________ Page ________ Crystal Ball Predictions © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 93-6103 www.newpathlearning.com Purpose: Purpose Book Title _______________________________________ Reading Comprehension: Reading Comprehension: STRATEGIES STRATEGIES
Purpose: Primary Examples Intermediate Examples Page ________ Page ________ Page ________ Page ________ Page ________ Page ________ Book Title:_____________________________________ Book Title:________________________________________ The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary 2 8 57 1 1 4 10 20 I think Leigh is going to meet Mr. Henshaw. Leigh is giving up on his dad. His mother might marry Mr. Henshaw and then he’ll become his dad. Leigh is going to ask the famous author about Mr. Henshaw. © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 93-6103 www.newpathlearning.com Crystal Ball Predictions
Clipboard Cause & Effect © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 93-6104 www.newpathlearning.com Purpose: Purpose Cause Effect Book Title _______________________________________ Reading Comprehension: Reading Comprehension: STRATEGIES STRATEGIES
© Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 93-6104 www.newpathlearning.com Clipboard Cause & Effect Cause Effect Cause Effect Purpose: Primary Examples Intermediate Examples wraps the kente cloth around him he can remember the stories Jacob had a bad dream so he woke up early Jacob was poor he didn’t think he would get any good Christmas presents Mama made a pancake man Jacob laughed The snow was black and watery Jacob and his brother made a black snowman Jamie had money and was entertaining Claudia chose him to run away with People didn’t appreciate her Claudia decided to teach them a lesson by running away Claudia didn’t follow the rules She would have to pay a fine out of her allowance Claudia found a train pass She could run away sooner Jamie played cards with his friends He had a lot of money Book Title:___________________________________ ________________ Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler by F.L. Konigsburg Book Title:____________________________________ The Black Snowman by Phil Mendez
Book Title _______________________________________ Reading Comprehension: Reading Comprehension: STRATEGIES STRATEGIES Web of Details © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 93-6105 www.newpathlearning.com Purpose: Purpose Main Idea Supporting Details Supporting Details Supporting Details Supporting Details Supporting Details Supporting Details Supporting Details Supporting Details
© Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 93-6105 www.newpathlearning.com Web of Details Intermediate Examples Book Title:____________________ _________________________________ Book Title:____________________ _________________________________ Purpose: Primary Examples drew instead of doing his work drew pictures everywhere he went didn’t want to play - just draw and paint decorated his bedroom with his pictures drew when he was supposed to be sleeping drew when he visited his dad drew on the walls Tommy wanted to be an artist. joked with her doctor she kept folding cranes no matter how much pain she was in cheered up the people who came to visit her told her mother not to cry always had a smile for her visitors she never complained about shots or medicine she folded 644 cranes Sadako had courage. The Art Lesson by Tomi DePaola Sadako & The Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr Main Idea Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Main Idea
Book Title _______________________________________ Reading Comprehension: Reading Comprehension: STRATEGIES STRATEGIES Event 1 Event 2 Ev ent 3 Even t 4 Event 5 Event 6 Event Chain © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 93-6106 www.newpathlearning.com Purpose: Purpose
© Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 93-6106 www.newpathlearning.com Book Title:________________________________________ Book Title:____________________________________ Event Chain Primary Examples Intermediate Examples Event 1 Event 2 Event 3 Eve nt 4 Event 5 Event 6 Event 1 Event 2 Event 3 Eve nt 4 Event 5 Event 6 Omri finds his cupboard turns plastic toys into real beings. The Indian is demanding and hard to take care of. They send the Indians back to their own lives. He shares his secret with his best friend. They get caugh t in schoo l with the live tiny Indian s. Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks She thought her name was perfect. Everyone was jealous of Chrysanthemum’s name. The kids in school made fun of her name. She started to hate her name. The music teacher told the class her name.
Text-Connections © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 93-6107 www.newpathlearning.com Purpose: Purpose Book Title _______________________________________ World to Text Text to Text Self to Text Reading Comprehension: Reading Comprehension: STRATEGIES STRATEGIES
Purpose: Primary Examples Intermediate Examples Self to Text World to Text Text to Text Self to Text World to Text Text to Text Book Title:________________________________________ Babushka’s Doll by Patricia Polacco Book Title:____________________________________ Sidewalk Chalk by Carole Boston Weatherford • girls all over the world play with dolls • dolls don’t really come to life I got in trouble once and blamed it on my teddy bear. My mother punished me. This book reminds me of the Lonely Doll where the girl and her doll mess up the house playing with each other. Graffiti art is like sidewalk chalking We write on the sidewalk and driveways in our neighborhood. We also do hopscotch. This poem reminds me of the book Sidewalk Story. Only the poem is happy and shows the times of living in a city. The book tells an unhappy side of living in the city. © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 93-6107 www.newpathlearning.com Text-Connections
Questions From the Text Author’s Meaning Page Book Title _______________________________________ By The Book © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 93-6108 www.newpathlearning.com Purpose: Purpose Reading Comprehension: Reading Comprehension: STRATEGIES STRATEGIES
Purpose: Primary Examples Intermediate Examples Page From the Text Author’s Meaning Page From the Text Author’s Meaning Book Title:________________________________________ Goggles by Ezra Jack Keats Book Title:____________________________________ If You Are a Hunter of Fossils by Byrd Baylor They found motorcycle goggles. The dog didn't like the big boys and might bite them. He was going to fight the big boys. He was scared for Willie. He was scared the big boys were going to find him and take the goggles. They outsmarted the big boys and got to keep the goggles. • Motorcycle Goggles! • Willie growled. • Peter put up his fists. • Archie gasped. • Peter held his breath. • Things look real fine now. 1 4 7 7 13 30 dig in the dirt looking carefully at each rock some kind of plant it takes millions of years to make a rock when a person holds a rock they are holding millions of years the animals are layered in the rock • turns the dark earth • reading the rocks • the dust devils below • every rock holds the memory of time • you hold it too • locked in a rock 1 6 10 12 12 15 © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 93-6108 www.newpathlearning.com By The Book From the Text Author’s Meaning Page From the Text Author’s Meaning Page
Book Title _______________________________________ © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 93-6109 www.newpathlearning.com Purpose: Purpose QAR - Question-Answer Relationships Words From the Book In the Book From You From the Author ? Reading Comprehension: Reading Comprehension: STRATEGIES STRATEGIES
Purpose: Primary Examples Intermediate Examples ? Words From the Book In the Book From You From the Author ? Words From the Book In the Book From You From the Author Book Title:________________________________________ Red Riding Hood by Brothers Grimm Book Title:____________________________________ Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry • Where was Red Riding Hood going? • What was she bringing to her grandmother? • How did the wolf look like grandma? • What caused the wolf to hide in grandma’s bed? • What do you think the woods must have been like? • What message does this story send to children? • Why did the rainforest grow quiet? • Why did the man fall asleep? • Who spoke to the sleeping mom? • How do the different animals contribute to the rainforest? • What caused the man to change his mind? • Would you have cut the tree down? • What other things can you do to protect nature? • Has Lynne Cherry been to a rainforest? • Why does she care so much about the rainforest? © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 93-6109 www.newpathlearning.com QAR - Question-Answer Relationships
Book Title _______________________________________ In My Mind © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 93-6110 www.newpathlearning.com Purpose: Purpose Before the Book: During the Book: After the Book: Reading Comprehension: Reading Comprehension: STRATEGIES STRATEGIES
Purpose: Primary Examples Intermediate Examples Book Title:________________________________________ Thundercake by Patricia Polacco Book Title:____________________________________ George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl After the book: Will she really be brave the next time it thunders? Before the book: How can thunder make a cake? During the book: Does the thunder and lightening cook the cake? After the book: I wish I could figure out a way to make a magic potion! Before the book: Will George be able to do his magic again? During the book: Should his parents be worried that he might do what he did to his grandma to them? © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 93-6110 www.newpathlearning.com In My Mind