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 game on the computer.


The game is fun and engaging, with Flinkster characters the children can appreciate. Each screen has a comprehension question where the children need to answer the question based on what they read in the book. For each question there are three or four choices. There are many problems and the children gets immediate feedback; there is even a way to ask the computer to give the correct answer if the children need that kind of help. Children can even decide to play with a timer and scoring…or not.

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