The document provides examples of different reading comprehension strategies like drawing conclusions, identifying main ideas and details, determining cause and effect, comparing and contrasting, and distinguishing between facts and opinions. It uses a scenario about three children running to the park and their activities there to demonstrate how to apply these strategies when analyzing a text.

2. Draw Conclusions

3. Joe, Bob and Lisa ran down Oak
Street racing to the park.
Why do you think they were
running to the park so fast? We
don’t know for sure, but we can
draw a conclusion with the
information we already have.

4. Main Idea and Details

5. The game is going to start at
9:00 on Saturday morning.
Football Game this Week
What is the main idea (the most important
information)?
What are the details (imporant information,
but less important that the main idea)?

6. Cause and Effect

7. Cause and Effect

8. Cause and Effect

9. The three friends always ran as
fast as they could because there
were only two swings. Bob, the
slowest of the three, just stood
around waiting his turn.
What did they do? (cause)
Why did Bob have to wait his turn? (effect)

10. Compare and Contrast

11. Compare and Contrast

12. Joe, Bob and Lisa ran down Oak Street racing to
the park. It was 10:43 a.m. on a beautiful Tuesday
morning. The three friends always ran as fast as they
could because there were only two swings. Bob, the
slowest of the three, just stood around waiting his
turn. The three second graders all love to swing, but
Lisa and Bob also like to play on the big slide.
How are the children the same?
(this is comparing)
How are the children different?
(this is contrasting)

13. Fact and Opinion

14. Fact and Opinion

15. Joe, Bob and Lisa ran down Oak Street
racing to the park. Joe thinks Tuesdays are
the best morning of the week. Bob and Lisa
always say that
Fridays are the best days of summer.
What is a fact? (information that is 100% true)
What is an opinion? (not everyone thinks this is true)