Comprehension Activity - Let's go to Planet Kreaton
January 22nd 2010 09:11
'Let's go to Planet Kreaton' - Reading and Comprehension Activity - page 1
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Printing Instructions
Notes for teachers – Let’s go to planet Kreaton
(Kreaton is an imaginery planet)
This activity presents the children with a challenging read and draw activity. Each child is given the instructions and draws what she/he reads.
It is important for a child to be able to comprehend what he/she is reading.
Read and draw activities help develop a child’s comprehension skills.
“Let’s go to Kreaton” offers a complex comprehension activity and could be given to the more mature readers in your class as an extension activity. They will need a reasonable amount of time to satisfactorily and successfully complete this task. They will need to work on a sheet no smaller than A3.
This activity appeals to the child’s imagination.
Give each child an activity sheet. Read through the instructions with the children. Let them work the exercise with as little help as possible.
Observing how each child tackles and completes this activity can provide you with valuable information for your records.
Two worksheets (one more difficult than the other) have been included for this activity. Choose the one which is appropriate for your purposes.
'Let's go to Planet Kreaton' - Reading and Comprehension Activity - page 2
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Printing Instructions
Let’s go to planet Kreaton
By reading and following these instructions you are going to draw a scene from the imaginary planet, Kreaton.
Read ALL of the instructions carefully before you start drawing the picture. This will help you draw everything in its correct place.
Tick the box when you have drawn the item.
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Draw three tall, blue and orange trees in the lower left hand
corner of your page. The trees are growing in red soil.
In the top right hand corner draw four Kreaton houses. A
Kreaton house is shaped like a triangle and is always painted
red. Each house has a green triangle chimney and a purple
triangle door.
To the right of the trees draw a big lake. Lake water on
Kreaton is always yellow. Draw the brown Kreaton Monster
which lives by the lake.
Draw a Kreaton spaceship near the centre of your Kreaton-
scape.
What do you think a Kreaton Creature would look like? Draw
four of them in the places where you think they best fit into
your picture.
Draw a purple road meandering from the houses to the trees.
What colour is the rest of the soil? Draw some Kreaton plants
and animals in appropriate places in your Kreaton- scape.
What else do you think would be on Kreaton?
Draw it/them into your picture.
Well done.
Would you like to travel to Kreaton?
'Let's go to Planet Kreaton' - Reading and Comprehension Activity - page 3
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Printing Instructions
Let’s go to planet Kreaton
By reading and following these instructions you are going to draw a scene from the imaginary planet, Kreaton.
Read ALL of the instructions carefully before you start drawing the picture. This will help you draw everything in its correct place.
Tick the box when you have drawn the item.
----------------------------- ----------------------------- ----------------------------- -------------------
Draw three tall, blue and orange trees in the lower left hand
corner of your page. The trees are growing in red soil.
In the top right hand corner draw four Kreaton houses. A
Kreaton house is shaped like a triangle and is always painted
red. Each house has a green triangle chimney and a purple
triangle door.
To the right of the trees draw a lake. Lake water on Kreaton is
always yellow. Draw the brown Kreaton Monster which lives
by the lake.
Draw a Kreaton spaceship near the centre of your Kreaton-
scape.
What do you think a Kreaton Creature would look like? Draw
four of them in the places where you think they best fit into
your picture.
What else do you think would be on Kreaton?
Draw it/them into your picture.
Well done.
Would you like to go to Kreaton?
'Let's go to Planet Kreaton' - Reading and Comprehension Activity - page 4
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Printing Instructions
Extra Activity:
After the children have completed the ‘read and draw’ activity they could write a story about a visit to this imaginary planet.
Good stories have a beginning, a middle and an end. Some children are inclined to ramble and often their stories go nowhere. To help them write a story, with the ideas flowing and in sequence, it is a good idea for each child to work from a framework.
The framework should be filled in with words and phrases and helps the child create the ideas and backbone of the story before he/she begins to write.
A (Simple) Narrative Framework has been included for this extra activity. It can be used for this story or any other story a child is going to write.
This is how you use the Narrative Framework:
1. Discuss with the children the story they are going to write.
2. Words which will be common to all writers may be written on the board or a chart for future reference.
3. Model to the children how to use the Narrative Framework by telling them what you are thinking as
you fill in the three boxes.
4. Explain the ‘Story Title’ box may be filled before or after all the other boxes have been filled.
Show the children how to write the title of a story. Every word has a capital letter except the small
words.
Look at books from around the room to see how the titles are written.
5. Give the children time to fill in the boxes.
Next Lesson:
6. Using the Narrative Framework you used as a model in the previous lesson show the children how you
turn the words and phrases (ideas) into sentences.
Think aloud as you model how to write one sentence at a time. Explain how the sentences develop into
the story.
If this is the first time the children have used a Narrative Framework keep your story (very) short.
Children easily lose the thread of a story if it is too long.
7. Give the children time to write their stories.
If a child finishes quickly she/he could illustrate her/his story and/or create a cover page which
includes the title and her/his name as the author and illustrator (if they have drawn a picture).
8. Staple the pages into a booklet. Children are proud of their work if it is made into a booklet.
Hint: It is difficult for every child in the class to finish his/her story in the given time. The children
who do not complete their story/illustration in the given time may be happy to finish it at home.
'Let's go to Planet Kreaton' - Reading and Comprehension Activity - page 5
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Printing Instructions
My name Date: .
Narrative Framework
Story Title
.
Beginning:
introduce characters
where is your story
taking place
Middle:
develop your story
what happens in your story
The End:
how does your story end
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