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Teachers, are you in need of 3rd-grade reading comprehension practice?
This blog post has a resource that will make your heart very happy (as well as very happy students!).
Reading comprehension is SO IMPORTANT.
But passages can be… well… really boring.
How do we get students motivated and excited to practice their reading comprehension skills when they are bored out of their minds with yet again another passage?
Say HELLO to color by number reading comprehension!
Keep reading to learn more about color by number reading comprehension and how it will completely transform your students‘ comprehension skills.
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I’m sure you’ve used a color by number worksheet with your students before!
Color by number reading comprehension is super similar – I’ll describe how it works.
Each worksheet has a passage, four questions, and a black & white picture.
Students first read the passage (I always encourage my students to highlight to help them understand the text better).
Next, students answer 4 questions about the passage.
Each answer choice has a color next to it in parenthesis.
Students use the color next to the answer that they chose to color the black & white picture – therefore revealing the mystery picture!
Reading passages + comprehension questions + a coloring reward = ENGAGED students.
Each worksheet focuses on a specific reading strategy (like cause & effect, inferencing, author’s purpose, etc.).
There are four questions to assess student knowledge of that particular strategy.
Students don’t need to answer 20 questions to show their understanding of a strategy – four questions don’t take up valuable time during your school day.
A reading passage should NOT take up a whole class period to complete!
We are assessing students on their comprehension – why do they need to read 5 pages to do that?
Taking an hour to complete an overly long reading passage takes students away from other important tasks they could be doing during their ELA block (like independently reading a book of their choice!).
These reading comprehension worksheets will NOT take up a whole class period!
At the end of the day, both a regular reading passage and my color by number reading passages seem quite similar.
However, there are big differences.
The key difference is the level of ENGAGEMENT and MOTIVATION that students have when completing the questions.
Students that want to continue doing a reading comprehension worksheet because it’s so much fun are going to want to do more practice and review in the future.
Students carefully check the text to ensure that their answer is right (and that they don’t mess up their picture).
Ultimately, if we can get our students having fun and staying excited about reading practice, it helps ensure their success.
All the following topics come in this BIG money–saving bundle.
There are a total of 78 reading passages in this bundle.
Click on each link to learn more about each individual component (you can also buy each one separately if you don’t need the entire set).
This bundle is available at Glitter in Third on TPT.
Check it out HERE!
These reading passages are also available in a digital format!
You can read more about the digital version (called digital mystery pictures) in my blog post HERE.
Or, click HERE to check out the digital mystery pictures in my TPT store!
You will LOVE this FREE reading comprehension color by number worksheet.
Let’s be honest, ALL our students need more practice with reading comprehension!
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Hey there, I’m Kelly! I I love helping teachers save time with technology and resources so they have more hours in the day to spend with family and friends. Take a look around to find new ideas that you can implement in your classroom today!
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