Raise your hand if you love the book Creepy Pair Of Underwear and love some fun kindergarten reading comprehension ideas! Seriously, it’s a must-read. I love it, the kids love it and it’s full of teaching possibilities.
Kindergarten Reading Comprehension: Creepy Pair Of Underwear
One of the areas that my students struggle with is reading comprehension. Part of this is a language barrier because most of my students speak little to no English. Recognizing this weakness in my teaching and my student’s learning, I wanted something that would really allow us to focus on comprehension. That’s what Read It Up does! It focuses on retelling, story maps, sequencing, vocabulary (HUGE FOR MY KIDS!), and story-specific literacy skills such as problem/solution, compare/contrast, etc. Using this has greatly improved our comprehension of stories and books!
After reading the story, the class had to retell the story with details, including characters and settings. I recorded their retelling. After we made the chart, we orally retold the story using the sequencing words.
Then, the students had to use the retelling page to retell the story using drawings! After finishing their drawings, they had to retell the story to me again. This served as a great assessment!
We also do a story map to focus on story elements and identifying the beginning, middle and end of the story.
Kindergarten Math: Creepy Underwear
We also include math skills in our Creepy Underwear activities! We vote for our favorite character and analyze the data!
Kindergarten Comprehension Lessons: Creepy Underwear Snack
We make a Creepy Pair Of Underwear snack!
Kindergarten Comprehension Lessons: Creepy Pair Of Underwear Art
We even add glow in the dark paint to make our creepy underwear glow!
And yes, there is a costume! Suprisingly, you can’t buy a Creepy Pair Of Underwear costume so I made my own with foam board, paper and markers!
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