COMPREHENSION

Objective

• The purpose of these activities is to provide guidelines for the parents to scaffold children's reading comprehension with educational apps. The reading comprehension activities are divided into 4 sessions according to Cope and Kalantzis' (2015) Learning by Design framework.

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Materials/Resources​

• Tablet or iPad

• Educational apps such as Nosy Crow's Snow White, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Hansel and Gretel, and so on.

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Session 1 - Experiencing/Situated Practice

Duration - 30 mins (Variable)

• During the first session. parents can choose educational apps such as Snow White, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Hansel and Gretel, and so on to teach children reading comprehension.

• Parents can relate parts of the story children like using the following prompters:

  • Can you tell me what you like about the story?

  • Can you tell me which is your favourite character?

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Session 2 - Conceptualising/Overt Instruction

Duration - 30 mins (Variable)

• During the second session, as children achieve a basic understanding of the story, parents can use recall to prompt children to tell a story:

  • Can you tell me about your favourite story?

  • Why do you think the character performed this action?

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Session 3 - Analysing/Critical Framing 

Duration - 30 mins (Variable)

• During the third session, to develop children's critical thinking, parents can prompt children to predict the next part of the story:

  • What do you think will happen next in the story?

  • Why do you think that happened in the story?

​Session 4 - Applying/Transformed Practice

Duration - 30 mins (Variable)

• During the fourth session, to reinforce children's reading comprehension, parents may prompt children to perform the story:

  • Will you draw for me your favourite scene from the story?

  • Shall we perform the story together using our toys?

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Contributor: TWM