Clarifying Lesson and Activities Comprehension Crew

Unlock the Power of Clarification with Clarissa The Clarifier!
Clarissa guides readers to

• monitor their understanding
• pause when encountering unknown words or confusion
• use strategies to clarify and ensure comprehension throughout the text

With Clarissa’s guidance, students gain confidence and competence in clarifying texts, enhancing their overall understanding.

This resource includes everything you need to introduce and teach monitoring & clarifying to your students. It also provides a consistent framework for continuous reinforcement and application of the skill with ANY TEXT and with all future lessons.

With concrete representations through character portrayal, this resource facilitates active engagement with the reading skill. The lesson format can be seamlessly applied to any book, fostering repeated practice and reinforcement.

Empower Your Teaching with Comprehensive Activities
Explore a variety of activities included in this resource, designed to cater to diverse learning styles and reading levels. From character posters to interactive notebook pages, our resource offers a consistent framework for reinforcing clarifying skills with any text, time and time again.

The resource includes the following:

• Character Posters & Visual Aids *including strategies to clarify
• Character Profile- includes character profession, theme song, prop, gesture, phrase, likes, and how they help reader
• Concrete Clarifying Activity
• Introduction & Modeling Lesson Plan- can be applied to any book
• Teacher Implementation Tips
• Graphic Organizers- 20 differentiated options for any text
• Flip Books- 2 options that can be used with any text
• Interactive Notebook
• Task Cards with Photographs- includes answer key and differentiated answer sheets
• Task Cards with Short Text- includes answer key and differentiated answer sheets
• Practice Passages- differentiated texts and scaffolded response options with answer keys included (lower readability- Circus Crazy & higher readability-
• Clowning at the Circus)
  Bonus:
  Mentor Text Suggestions featuring picture books and wordless picture books
  Updated version includes graphic organizers, worksheets, and posters in Google Slides for convenient student interaction!

What is the Comprehension Crew?

Comprehension Crew is a group of characters each representing an essential reading skill. Each character has a profession, song, gesture, and prop that provide a concrete representation of the reading skill. These characters are used to model and reinforce each skill both in life and in text. The character helps students to understand, remember, and intentionally apply skills as they are reading.

Who are the other Comprehension Crew characters?

Who are the other Comprehension Crew characters?

There are characters representing each of the following reading skills:

• inferencing

• questioning

• predicting

• summarizing

• clarifying

• connecting– TRY FOR FREE!

• synthesizing

• evaluating

• visualizing

• theme

Non-fiction reading skills:

• determining importance
• main idea
• text features
• text structure
• vocabulary

• Teacher Reviews

  2nd grade teacher Sydney said, “This was helpful because this concept is really difficult for 2nd graders to understand. This helped my visual learners a lot in their learning.” 

  2nd grade teacher said, “This is a great resource for a skill that is difficult for my students to understand. I love how simply it explains all the different parts of why you might need to clarify something and how to do it. ” 

  If you have any questions about this resource or how to best use it in your classroom, I am happy to help! Please email me at [email protected] or Instagram message me at Lessons_by_the_lake. Thank you!