Evaluating Lesson and Activities- Comprehension Crew

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Evan helps readers think like a judge to evaluate and form opinions on the characters, their decisions, and feelings.

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Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to help your students effectively understand and apply reading skills like making evaluations? You’ve found it!!

This resource includes everything you need to introduce and teach evaluating reading strategy 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.

Evan The Evaluator will help you teach evaluating to your students in a way they will truly understand and internalize. Evan helps readers think like a judge to evaluate and form opinions on the characters, their decisions, and feelings. Readers also evaluate if they agree with the text’s ideas, plot events, and author’s choices.

This resource introduces concrete ways for students to interact with the reading skill through this character representation. This lesson format can be applied to any book over and over again! There are a variety of activities included in this resource for your students to practice evaluating.

*download the preview to learn more about the Comprehension Crew program

The resource includes the following:

  • Character Posters & Visual Aids
  • Character Profile– includes character profession, theme song, prop, gesture, phrase, likes, and how they help reader
  • Concrete Evaluating Activity
  • Introduction & Modeling Lesson Plan– can be applied to any book
  • Teacher Implementation Tips
  • Graphic Organizers– 33 differentiated options for any text
  • Flip Books– 5 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- Basketball
    • higher readability- Vacation
  • Mentor Text Suggestions – includes a wide variety of picture books and wordless picture books

Now updated to include the graphic organizers, worksheets, and posters in Google Slides for your students to type on!

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?

There are characters representing each of the following reading skills:

• inferencing

• questioning

• predicting

• summarizing

• clarifying

• connecting– TRY FOR FREE!

• synthesizing

• evaluating

• visualizing

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Teacher Reviews

3rd grade teacher said, “I love the comprehension crew because it makes it easier for my students to understand the concept. They connect the character with the skill. It has been game changing in my classroom.”

1st grade teacher said, “My students have loved having the Evan character to support the strategy. Thanks heaps!”

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