Comprehension Fun!

As part of our common core reading literature unit featuring the David McPhail book, Lost, the kids wrote text-based questions about the story.  The twist was that they had to cite the  page number that the answer was found on.  They wrote them on index cards and we played an awesome game called Build a Tower with their cards.  The great learning came when students were crafting their questions.  Some of the questions were inferential and it was hard for them to come up with the page number that the answer was found on. This was great because it led us to a great discussion on the two types of questioning.  Through some redefining and refining the students came up with a clear difference between inferential and text based questions.  These first graders AMAZE me!

Below is a picture of the game and below that is a link to the unit we used if you are interested.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Lost-Common-Core-Unit-1195128

and the companion informative text unit on bears

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Bears-Informational-Text-Unit-1204211

New Common Core Literature Unit

I created a new Common Core Literature Unit to go with the David McPhail story Lost!.  It is in the first grade Houghton Mifflin anthology or at any bookseller.  The comparison book in the unit is The Teddy Bear by David McPhail.  This unit covers a TON!  It has reading literature, speaking/listening, language, reading foundational, and writing skills ...all based on Common Core Standards.  

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Lost-Common-Core-Unit-1195128