Teaching Comprehension Strategies with Favorite June Literature

Digging for those strategies to develop a deeper understanding of the text we read is so important.  This packet provides activities for just that using favorite June literature pieces.

Each of the four stories include...

I can strategy cards for posting

Lesson plans

3 comprehension building activities

Last day Blues looks at main idea, cause and effect, sequencing.

No More Pencils, No More Books, No More Teacher's Dirty Looks covers summarizing, making predictions, and inferencing.

The Night Before Summer Vacation details compare and contrast (self to text), sensory conclusions, writing a definition using text (anticipation)

And using literature to gather facts with a House For Hermit Crab.

Students work with K<Q<L, Author's purpose and Hermit Crab...wanted, discovered, found.

 

The packet ends with an open ended "making connections" page that can be used with any piece of literature. 

Find it here.

June Calendar Journal

This is ideal for the beginning an

 This is perfect to begin each day or each afternoon.

Students will fill in the date, record the temperature and the weather.

Following those daily steps there is a journal page to complete.

It includes writing the date, identifying the day of the week, completing information for the temperature and greater than or less than.

The journal page then continues with the number of days of school and a daily math review.

For the June calendar there is an anchor chart with vocabulary words and then vocabulary cards for posting.  There are also numbers to 31 you can use for a calendar or number of days of school.