Classroom Resource

Picture Understanding! Building Comprehension in the Primary Grades With Picture Books

Subject Area

English Language Arts

Grade(s)

1, 2, 3

Overview

Comprehension is an essential component of successful reading. Through modeling and progressive levels of independent work, students become aware of the importance of retelling and essential story elements. Students demonstrate their understanding of stories through the use of online interactive graphic organizers and present story elements of an individual book through a book talk.

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

ELA21.1.R3

Expand background knowledge and build vocabulary through discussion, reading, and writing.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.1.R3

Vocabulary

  • Background knowledge
  • Vocabulary
  • Discussion

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Relating experiences through discussions, writing, and reading will help build background knowledge and improve vocabulary.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Connect new concepts to prior experiences to increase background knowledge through discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Construct the meaning of words through discussions, reading, and writing.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Background knowledge can increase by relating experiences to new ideas, topics, and words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Vocabulary will increase by constructing the meaning of words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

ELA21.1.2

Actively participate in shared reading experiences and collaborative discussions to build background knowledge and learn how oral reading should sound.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.1.2

Vocabulary

  • Participate
  • Shared reading
  • Background knowledge
  • Oral reading

Knowledge

Students know:
  • The process of shared reading experiences and collaborative discussions.
  • Shared reading and collaborative discussions can increase their background knowledge.
  • How fluent oral reading sounds.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Participate in shared reading and discussions to build background knowledge and learn new information.
  • Describe how oral reading should sound.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Actively participating in shared reading experiences and collaborative discussions can build their background knowledge.
  • Listening to others read aloud can help improve their oral reading skills.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

ELA21.1.23

Identify and describe the main story elements in a literary text.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.1.23

Vocabulary

  • Identify
  • Describe
  • Story elements
  • Literary text

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Main story elements in a literary text.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify the main story elements in a text.
  • Describe the main story elements in a text.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Literary texts include predictable story elements, such as plot, characters, setting, conflict, and resolution, to help the reader to better comprehend the text.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

ELA21.1.28

Self-monitor comprehension of text by pausing to summarize or rereading for clarification when comprehension is lacking.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.1.28

Vocabulary

  • Self-monitor
  • Comprehension
  • Text
  • Summarize
  • Rereading
  • Clarification
  • Comprehension

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Comprehension is the understanding of what is read.
  • Techniques to self-monitor comprehension.
  • Strategies to improve comprehension.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Self-monitor comprehension of text.
  • Pause their reading to summarize text to improve comprehension.
  • Reread for clarity to improve comprehension.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Comprehension is understanding what is read.
  • They should monitor their comprehension as they read, and take action if their comprehension is lacking by pausing to summarize the text or rereading for clarification.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

ELA21.2.R3

Expand background knowledge and build vocabulary through discussion, reading, and writing.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.2.R3

Vocabulary

  • Background knowledge
  • Vocabulary
  • Discussion

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Relating experiences through discussions, writing, and reading will help build background knowledge and improve vocabulary.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Connect new concepts to prior experiences to increase background knowledge through discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Construct the meaning of words through discussions, reading, and writing.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Background knowledge can increase by relating experiences to new ideas, topics, and words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Vocabulary will increase by constructing the meaning of words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

ELA21.2.23

Identify the main story elements in a literary text.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.2.23

Vocabulary

  • Story elements
  • Literary text

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Literary text is a story that contains story elements, like a plot and characters.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify the main story elements in a literary text, such as characters, settings, and plot.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Literary texts include story elements, and they can identify the various elements to better understand the text.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

ELA21.2.30

Read and comprehend literary and informational texts.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.2.30

Vocabulary

  • Comprehend
  • Literary texts
  • Informational texts

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Comprehension is understanding text that is read.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Read and comprehend literary (fictional) and informational (nonfiction) text.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • They can read literary and informational texts and use comprehension skills to understand what they have read.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 3

ELA21.3.R3

Expand background knowledge and build vocabulary through discussion, reading, and writing.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.3.R3

Vocabulary

  • Background knowledge
  • Vocabulary
  • Discussion

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Relating experiences through discussions, reading, and writing will help build background knowledge and improve vocabulary.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Connect new concepts to prior experiences to increase background knowledge through discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Construct the meaning of words through discussions, reading, and writing.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Background knowledge can increase by relating experiences to new ideas, topics, and words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Vocabulary will increase by constructing the meaning of words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 3

ELA21.3.22

Describe literary elements within a story, including setting, plot, characters, and themes.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.3.22

Vocabulary

  • Describe
  • Literary elements
  • Story
  • Setting
  • Plot
  • Characters
  • Themes

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Literary elements within a story include the setting, plot, characters, and themes.
  • Setting is when and where a story takes place.
  • Plot is the main events of a story (often referred to as the beginning, middle, and end of a story).
  • Characters are any person, animal, or figure that affect the plot.
  • Theme is the main, recurring idea in a text.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify and describe the literary elements, including setting, plot, characters, and theme, within the text.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Identifying and describing literary elements within a story will help in comprehending the text.
Link to Resource
http://readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/picture-understandin…

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Lesson/Unit Plan

Resource Provider

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