The Comprehension Box

Features:

The Comprehension Box is a set of three boxes suitable for Ages 7-8+ (Box 1), Ages 8-10+ (Box 2) and ages 11+ (Box 3) primary-age students.

The Comprehension Box incorporates three levels of comprehension questions in a multiple choice format and assess 12 different comprehension skills. Separate answer cards allow the students to work and progress at their own rate while keeping a record for their own and the teacher's reference. The variety of resources included in the Teachers guide assist easy implementation and maintenance of the box program.

The cards vary in difficulty, depending on the:

• topic; e.g. interest and background knowledge
• conceptual understanding required
• age appropriateness
• artwork included
• number of words
• number of questions
• complexity of questions
• complexity of sentence structure
• length of the sentences
• grammatical complexity; e.g. passive/active verbs
• difficulty of the vocabulary
• length of the text, as determined by the font size and return spacing.

Each box contains:

• 150 colourfully illustrated cards with texts covering a variety of genres and text types
• 15 colour-coded sections
• 10 cards in each of the 15 sections, numbered (front to back) from 1 to 10
• questions on the back of each card
• answer cards
• a Teachers Guide

The Comprehension Box Teachers Guide includes: a scope and sequence chart of the cards, a recommended procedure for using the cards, an explanation of the cards, recording sheets, a guide on how to use the cards, a sample card and answer card, genre definitions, an explantion of the question types, information about how to select the best answer, an explanation of the various comprehension strategy posters, a student recording sheet, student tracking sheet, teacher tracking sheets, and a copy of the answers for all the cards in the box in the event that answers are lost.