Canadian Reading Comprehension - Grade 2

Reading comprehension is the cornerstone of a child’s academic success  By completing the activities in this book, children will develop and reinforce essential reading comprehension skills  Children will benefit from a wide variety of opportunities to practice engaging with text as active readers who can self-monitor their understanding of what they have read.

Children will focus on the following: 
Identifying the Purpose of the Text
 •    The reader understands, and can tell you, why they read the text Understanding the Text
 •    What is the main idea of the text?
 •    What are the supporting details? 
•    Which parts are facts and which parts are opinions?

 Analyzing the Text
 •    How does the reader’s background knowledge enhance the text clues to help the reader answer questions about the text or draw conclusions? 
•    What inferences can be made by using information from the text with what the reader already knows?
 •    How does the information from the text help the reader make predictions? 
•    What is the cause and effect between events? 

Making Connections
  •    How does the topic or information they are reading remind the reader about what they already know?
 •    Text-to-self connections:   How does this reading relate to your own life? 
•    Text-to-text connections: Have I read something like this before? How is this text similar to something I have read before? How is this text different from something I have read before?
 •    Text-to-world connections: What does this text remind you of in the real world? Using Text Feature
s •    How do different text features help the reader?