Subject: Language Arts Grade: 5 Duration: 120 minutes Term: 2

Unit of Work (Strand): Reading Comprehension Topic: What are the steps taken to accurately
complete the reading comprehension section of a
test? (Conceptualization)

Standard:

Demonstrate the ability to employ reasoning towards the creation of reading comprehension strategies.

Standards for Scientific Practices:

 1. Range, Quality, and Complexity of Text.

 2. Regular practice with complex texts and academic vocabulary.
☐ 3. Reading and writing and speaking grounded in evidence from the text both literary
and informational.
 4. Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction.

Prerequisite knowledge/skills:
Check that students are able to (in relation
to the specific subtopic):
- Decoding.
- Versed Vocabulary.
- Sentence construction and cohesion.
- Display reasoning
Specific Objectives:
Students should be able to:
- Use the QAR strategy to locate information in the book and in their heads.
- Identify and use information at the literal. Inferential and critical levels.
- Do self-selected reading of texts representing different genres and make connections to self, other texts and
the world.
- Establish cause and effect relationships
- Identify problem and solution text structure
- Apply appropriate elements of fluency (accuracy, speed and prosody) during reading to aid comprehension
- Independently select and read grade level texts for varying purpose

Teaching/Learning Resources:
- Internet (if necessary), Computer (if necessary)

https://moey.gov.jm/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Grade-5-Exploratory-Core.pdf (pg. 81)

Key Vocabulary:
- Comprehension, Strategies
Learning Outcome(s):
- Read for meaning, fluency and enjoyment of texts, using a variety of clues to gain
information and identify ideas and events.

Content Outline:

Opportunities for teaching comprehension occur throughout the curriculum. Early learners
engage in “very much the same comprehension processes as do their older counterparts”
(van den Brock, Kindeou, Kremer, Lynch, Butler, White and Pugzles Lorch, 2005).
Therefore, the strategies that are taught in the early years of education should be practiced,
consolidated and expanded on throughout a student’s schooling. Depending on the
researcher or author, there are a range of strategies recommended to assist comprehension.

The main strategies that are generally viewed as supporting comprehension are:

 Activating and using prior knowledge to make connections.

 Predicting
 Visualizing
 Asking and answering questions
 Summarizing
 Synthesizing
 Critical thinking
TEACHING/LEARNING ACTIVITY:

Engage:

Build prior knowledge and connect students to learning by asking if they've ever had
the experience of reading a text but not remembering what they just read. Discuss
briefly, allowing students to share their experiences.

Ask:
1. Why is reading comprehension important?
2. When do readers use comprehension strategies?
3. Which strategy is the most powerful to you? Why?

Give each individual student, partnership, or team a set of papers, each with one
strategy from the lesson, such as 'questioning' or 'highlighting.'
Direct students to arrange the papers in chronological order according to which
strategies they use before, during, and after reading.
When students believe they're in the correct order, review for accuracy and discuss the
strategies in more depth.

Explore:

Students should work independently, with partners, or with a team to create a poster-
size guide for each segment's comprehension strategies.
Students will be directed to label their chart paper with the appropriate sections
(before, during, after), then fill in strategies using text, bullet points, graphics, etc.
Promote creativity. Encouraging teamwork, if applicable
For a whole group component, share posters in presentation style and post for easy
reference.
Wrap up by giving students a reading assignment from the text (page will be chosen
in class based on what passages have already been covered). Ask them to be aware of
comprehension strategies they use and write a paragraph explaining how it improved
comprehension.
Explain:

Students will be engaged in a classroom discussion that will focus on the before,
during, or after reading strategies, digging deeper into techniques like questioning or
making connections.
Compare and contrast comprehension strategies used in fiction and nonfiction text.

Elaborate:
Evaluate:

Students will receive a past paper sample question to measure the depth of knowledge
gained from implementing comprehension strategies.

Teacher evaluation:

Strengths:

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Weaknesses:

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Actions To be Taken:

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