Intensive Reading: Comprehension Strategies
2.0 Celebrations · 2.2 Reading: Intensive Reading
Syllabus tag: Kenya CBC | Grade 6 English | Theme 2.0 Celebrations | Sub-Strand 2.2 Reading: Intensive Reading (3 Lessons)
Lesson objectives
By the end of this topic, you will be able to:
- Identify characters and events in a text for comprehension
- Predict events in a text
- Answer factual and inferential questions correctly for comprehension
- Create mental images from the events in poems and stories
- Judge the characters or events in a story, in collaboration with peers
Summary
Intensive reading means reading a single text closely and carefully -- unlike extensive reading's wide, independent approach. This topic uses a poem or story of about 500 words as the basis for close comprehension work.