Pandoras Box Lesson 2 English Reading Comprehension Today

Pandora’s Box Lesson 2 English

Reading Comprehension • Today our lesson will be focus around the skill of reading comprehension. Simply put this means to understand what we have read. • Throughout this year we have introduced you to skills such as retrieval of information, sequencing of events, inference to use clues to make good guesses about feelings or why something happened, vocabulary what certain words mean and why they have been chosen and prediction what may happen.

Retrieval Rex Here’s Rex who like to go into our text and find/retrieve information. Who is in charge of the Ancient Greeks? Who did not listen in the story? Who were Epimetheus and Prometheus? Who did Pandora marry? What did Zeus give to Pandora?

Sequencing Suki Here’s Suki who like everything to be put in the correct order. Which characters did we meet first? Write sentences or draw pictures to show what happened in the beginning, middle and end of the story. Can you use 30 words or less to sum up this story?

Inference Iggy Inference is one of the trickier comprehension skills. We often call this ‘reading between the lines’ by which we mean to understand things not directly stated/written by the author. We need to look for clues. Why do you think that Zeus made the box so beautiful? How do you think Pandora felt after the butterfly flew off?

Predicting Pip like us to have a really sensible guess at what might happen next or further on in the story. What do you think Epimetheus said to Pandora when he realised she’d opened the box? What do you think the lesson/moral of this story is? Draw a picture to show what might happen next.

Reading Comprehension • Great job! • Tomorrow Vocabulary Victor will be helping us with our learning.