Comprehension Skill Cards - Finding Facts (RL 3.0-4.5)

Reading | Specific Comprehension Skills |Finding Facts

Improve Reading Comprehension Skill by Skill!
Do you have students who need extra practice with comprehension skills? Then, this product was designed especially for you. Short, high-interest reading passages were specifically written to aid students in easily “Finding the Facts.”

SPECIFIC SKILL: FACTS
Being able to find relevant facts in a story is a basic skill necessary for comprehension. Facts are bits of information that focus on the details of a story. Facts can be found by asking who, what, why, where, when, which, and how type questions.

READING PASSAGES
Topics for these 16 short reading passages were carefully chosen to capture the interest of a wide variety of students. Titles include:” “Getting a Dog,” “Riding Roller Coasters at Six Flags,” “Making Tamales,” “Adventure in the Mountains,” and much more.

The reading passages are arranged in ascending order. The progression allows students to begin at a lower reading level (Card 1a) and move on to higher levels (Card 8b) as their skills improve.

Reading levels begin at 3.0 and progress to 4.5 according the Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale.

QUESTIONS
Eight questions per story, in a multiple-choice format, give three answer options for the students to chose from. Students may go back into the text to find the answers. Pre-printed answer strips can be filled out and used for students to mark down their answers.

DETAILS
Contents Include:
16 Story Cards
Printable Answer Strip Template
Teacher’s Guide
Answer Key
Comprehension Skills Progress Chart