This document provides guidance for a reading comprehension activity for 1st grade students about distinguishing between living and nonliving things. It outlines the steps students should take before, during, and after reading including activating prior knowledge, making predictions, identifying key words, and organizing information into a graph. The reading strategies are meant to help students locate specific information, understand new vocabulary, and describe the characteristics of living versus nonliving things at a literal, inferential, and critical level.

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NAME: _________________________GRADE: 1 ABCDE DATE: ________TEACHER: _____________________
Type of text: Descriptive Form: Continuos
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nonliving/
Topic: Living and Nonliving things Understanding Goal: How to recognize living and nonliving things to
describe their characteristics.
Reading level: Literal, inferential and critical.
Moments, clues and Reading strategies:
Before Reading:
1. Reading objective: What am I going to read for?
2. Activate previous knowledge: What do I know about the topic?
3. Predict: What is the text going to talk about? What would the topic be?
4. Planning: Am I going to read carefully?
While reading:
1. Identify important information: Which keywords or sentences can I underline?
2. Stop and ask about the unknown words: Do I know all the words?
After reading:
1. Use graphs: Representation. How can I organize the information in a graph?
Learning evidence:
● Identifies the meaning of a word or expression in its contextual relation.
● Locates specific information about what, who, when, where, why and how of the text.
● Selects key terms in a paragraph.
● Designs simple diagrams with specific information from the text.
BEFORE READING:
Our reading goal is to identify living and nonliving things and describe their characteristics. Prior knowledge: name some living
and nonliving things you know, Why do you know there are living or no living things? Making Predictions: Let’s take a look at the
images to predict what the topic is about.
1. Look at the pictures. What can you see?
2. Use your prior knowledge to circle Living things and cross out nonliving things.

2. WHILE READING:
It’s time to read the text “Living and Nonliving”. Now, let’s select and underline the key words in each paragraph to answer
specific questions. Stop and wonder: Do I understand the meaning of the words? Which words do I not understand? Then, let’s do
a word bank with the new words from the reading.
1. Choose one option to complete each sentence.

3. 3. Look at the pictures and tick if it has the characteristics or cross out if it does not.
AFTER READING:
After reading the text and taking into account the keywords complete the graph about living things characteristics.
4. Organize information in the following diagram.