Comprehension

With this graphic organizer, children can identify and define the two words that were combined to make a compound word and use that information to define the compound word. This can help develop morphological knowledge, or the ability to identify and manipulate the smallest units of meaning within a word.

Compound Word Meaning

This graphic organizer helps students write down evidence they find in a text, make a prediction based on that evidence, write down any new evidence they find, and evaluate the prediction they made. Making predictions is a way for students to better comprehend a given text.

Making and Evaluating Predictions

This rubric provides guidelines for providing students with targeted feedback regarding the accuracy and completion of their text maps (see Problem-Solution Text Structure Map). This can be used as part of text structure instruction, which may improve comprehension.

Problem-Solution Text Map Rubric

A scripted representation of an educator modeling text structure mapping for a problem-solution text. Teaching text structure may improve comprehension. 

Example Scripted Think Aloud for Text Structure Mapping Instruction

A graphic organizer to help students display and organize important features from a text about a problem and solution. The graphic organizer can be used to teach text structure, which may improve comprehension.

Problem-Solution Text Structure Map