Page 17 - Literacy Skills

READING

COMPREHENSION

• Place the 6 bricks randomly on the desk.
• The teacher writes the following instruction on the
board / smart board. He / She must not read this out
loud.
• The children may not touch their bricks.
• Ask the children to read the passage through quietly to
themselves.

Today we are going to build a bridge using three bricks.
Take the orange brick and the red brick and turn them
studs down. Place these two bricks next to each other.
Now take the green brick. Turn it studs down too. Click
the green brick over the other two bricks so that all bricks
are clicked together. Now turn your model over so that the
studs face up. What have you built?

• Explain to the children that once they
have read the passage they can then
build the model. They may not engage
with any other child.

• The teacher can ask the following questions:

Q: Look around the classroom at all the
models. Are they all the same? (No)
Q: Have you read the instructions correctly?
Let us check. Are the studs facing up?
Q: Do you have one brick at the bottom?
Q: Do you have 2 bricks at the top? Are all
your bricks connected together?
Q: Which two coloured bricks did you place
next to each other? (red and orange)
Q: What have you built? (bridge)
Q: How many bricks did you use? (three)
Q: What is your bridge used for? (children can
give different responses)
Q: Can you use the word “bridge” in your own
sentence?

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