Reading comprehension lessons for primary/elementary students that you can do with any text.

1. Dictionary Meaning - Select a paragraph of a text and ask your students to circle the words that you don't know the meaning of (or the class can choose them as a whole). If there are not enough of these, include words that could have an alternative. Look these words up in a dictionary and write down their meaning. Then, rewrite the whole text using the words found in the dictionary as replacements.

For example, "Spring came, and the silver tracks of the railway began to push out beyond the village and into the fastness of the great steppe" becomes "The trees began to bud, and the silver parallel lines of the railway began to push out past the small community and into the stronghold of the vast grasslands."

2. Conversation - Take any story or part of a story and asks your students to rewrite it as a conversation.

3. Character Focus - Take any story and look more closely at the characters by asking these questions. Who are the main characters? Draw them and write two sentences describing them. Write another two sentences describing what they do in the story. You could fold a page or paper in half. On each half draw a character and write the information underneath.

4. Another Point of View- Rewrite a well known story or a story that the class is reading from the point of view of one of the characters. The three little pigs becomes a very different story if it is told by the wolf or the grandmother.

5. Acting Up - This works well with lower grades when you are reading a short story or picture book. As characters are introduced, ask students to act out what is happening. If you are doing the three little pigs, you should end up with three students cowering in the brick house with a wolf blowing on the outside. The students get really involved and you will find that even the days-dreamers stay on task, which is useful when you want to use the text as a lead into another activity.

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