An overview of some activities that can be remixed to allow students to practice this skill in a digital format.

Comprehension

What happened at each part of the Story?

Ruled paper

Draw a picture of where you story takes place

How would this story be different if it took place somewhere else?

Comprehension Processes

Reading Comprehension

What Motivates your Character?

How do character traits influence what the character does?

What details from the text support your inferences about your character &amp; their motivation?

Choose a Mystery Genre book &amp; complete the outline

put picture of book&#160; cover here

What do you notice? Write or record your ideas here.

What features of mystery do you notice so far?

The National Reading Panel identified 5 critical components, or pillars, that must be mastered in order to become fluent in literacy.

Effective literacy instruction draws not only on these five pillars but also must be accessible and motivating to students. Book Creator is the perfect tool to empower and engage students with activities designed to develop these five competencies.

Directions: Have students complete the energy pyramid as part of an animal research report on consumers and producers

Because of what my character thinks, says, and does, I know they feel...

Who is Telling the Story?

The narrator is not part of the story

CREATE AN ILLUSTRATION AND LABEL THE KEY PARTS OF YOUR ANIMAL.

My Animal Report

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📕 Kids Book Read Aloud: Shelly's New Shoes By Pamela Chanko

Write, record or draw some of the words you heard that include the digraph sh

Directions: Listen to the phonics story and then write words that were included for the digraph sh

Draw or insert pictures of the characters from the story you just heard or characters of your own.

Use the pen tool or search for images of your characters. Record audio or add text to describe your characters

Every story has a setting, a place where the story takes place. Below, use words, images, and your voice to describe the setting of the story.

Comprehension is often identified as the goal of reading. Text comprehension strategies assist in developing skills that promote reading for understanding and include identifying the purpose and structure of the text, connecting to prior knowledge and personal experience, questioning, and summarizing.

Synthesizing across a Story

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The Science of Reading is the researched best-practices in explicitly teaching students how to read and write. This template gives some examples that can be created using Book Creator that align to the National Reading Panel's 5 Pillars of Effective Reading Instruction.

Our 5 Pillars series includes a book for each of the pillars, in which we share examples of ways that digital book creation can support each foundational skill. Through the use of multimedia, student tasks become living documents, and not just one-and-done activities. While these books are designed to provide ideas and examples, if you would like to make use of one of the examples in your classroom, Remix this book.

Directions:&#160; Use the words from the word web to write your own story to show comprehension.

Large grid paper

Teacher Tip: Any story can be embedded here.&#160; Students can use speech-to-text to write their summary.

'Strega Nona' read by Mary Steenburgen

Listen to the story "Strega Nona" by Tomie dePaola

Use embedded media, text, and audio to create tasks for understanding key ideas &amp; details. (RL.2-5.1)

The following pages contain exercises and page templates relating to Comprehension for you to use with your students.

- Hook your audience! - Connect the book to your audience - Explain why this is a book worth reading

Record yourself giving a book talk, and add it above

- Explain the setting of the book - Introduce the characters - Retell important events (not the whole story)

- Use props if possible - Connect the book to other books, series, or movies - Leave a cliffhanger!

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