Improving Reading Comprehension Activities

A parent was working with her children who had some problems with reading comprehension. The problem was the children didn’t fully understand the books they were reading and how to answer comprehension questions. The children could retell the story and describe what happened in general terms. They could describe the characters and what they did. They could even describe the setting, although not in great detail. What they needed practice with was answering specific comprehension questions about plot, setting, and characters. To help solve this problem, I showed the child an interactive comprehension activity on the computer.


The worksheet is fun and engaging, with characters the children can appreciate. Each screen has many numbers the children have to put in the correct order. Children find the next number in the sequence and drag it to the correct box. They continue dragging numbers until all the numbers are in the correct order. They can play over and over again since each time they play the numbers are scrambled. The teacher can make tens of problems in minutes, providing the children with a limitless number of ordering numbers problems.

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