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| A guided reading lesson on comprehension skills will look very different between the grades. There are many components to comprehension. Skills in comprehension begin in the basic , low level type questions and advance to a very high level of questioning which is often referred to as critical literacy. Low level questions are referred to as the “on the lines questions, and the higher level questions are referred to as the off the lines questions”. A low level, on the lines question would be something like: Who is the main character in the book? What happens to the main character? What is the problem in the book? The off the lines, higher level questions would be, why did the author write this book? What was his intention? Do you think the problem was solved appropriately, why or why not? Could there be a sequel to this book and what might it look like? The teacher would select one or possibly two comprehension skills to focus the guided reading lesson on. Here is a list of comprehension skills that are often used during guided reading: Main idea Understanding cause and effect Summarizing Determining author’s purpose Making inferences Distinguishing facts from opinions Distinguishing fantasy from reality Use contextual clues Make inferences Draw conclusions Understand figurative and literal language Understand characters Determine the setting and plot Make connections Determine the main idea Understand sequence Determine point of view Use supporting facts Visualizing Determining relevance and importance Questioning | |||||
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