Are you looking for a great way to help your kiddos practice their comprehension skills? I’m happy to be reviewing Comprehension Connection’s recently-released Reading Comprehension Learning Mats. The first thing I noticed about this product were the fun fonts and borders. I also enjoyed the truly unique ways kids can show their comprehension skills, such as tree and chain graphic organizers.
These mats are designed for you to laminate and make a spiral bound book that can be used over and over. I love that once you make the books, you can use them with different reading groups. Also, it’ll surely save you a lot of paper and time making copies! You’ll just need fine point dry erase markers and a tissue to erase.
Some of the mats, like the visualizing and making inferences mats, are great for kids to use items like unifix cubes, etc. to show their thinking. This is definitely one thing I want to highlight about this product because I like how interactive and simple it is. They would just simply put their unifix cube(s) on the word(s) that they thought represented one of the characters.
A total of 16 different mats cover a variety of comprehension concepts. They include character, setting, plot, conflict, main idea, inferencing, and facts from nonfiction texts, etc. This product would be ideal for 2nd grade and above, since some of the mats have a variety of written responses. These mats can be used for any book (guided reading, read aloud, independent reading), so they’re very flexible.
View the full product in Comprehension Connection’s TpT store. Also, here is the link to Carla’s Comprehension Connection blog, where you can find a sneak peak of her classroom decor, as well as other great teaching tidbits!
~Carrie