Reading Comprehension Activity: My Fish!

I get a lot of questions how I teach/test reading comprehension strategies with my students.  Like I mentioned in my listening center post, I like to use the listening center to help aide students comprehension skills.  Here is an example how I adapted a simple picture book from my listening center activity for my classroom.

My Fish by Juan Quintana

Using boardmaker, I created a simple sentence frame.  I laminated all the pieces and applied velcro to create this life long comprehension activity for this book!

The book is a repetitive storyline, each page starting with “My fish is ____”  I created the PEC’s in boardmaker to match the story so that students could fill in the sentence frame on their own.  Here are some pages of the story:

This is a simple activity that I implement during my work centers.  Students listen to the story while a staff turns the pages.  Once the story is over, we ask questions about the story and fill in the sentence frame as a group.  After a few days, students are expected to complete the sentence frame on their own depending on their ability.