Questioning Comprehension — Year 1

Questioning Comprehension — Year 1 gives teachers a clear week-long sequence for turning children's natural curiosity into purposeful reading comprehension. The editable presentation models when and how to ask questions, introduces who, what, when, where, why and how, and distinguishes answers found directly in a text from answers built with clues and prior knowledge.

Children then practise through displays, differentiated worksheets, card sorts, a headband game, a board game, fiction and non-fiction scoot tasks, exit slips and a two-part assessment. The unit includes substantial supported and independent practice, with generous response space and classroom-ready visual scaffolds. Printable worksheets and assessments are black and white; displays, games and activities are in colour; matching teacher answer pages use red responses for fast checking.

What's Included

• 48-page Unit Plan PDF with a clean contents page and 47 resource pages
• Editable 13-slide Comprehension Strategy: Questions presentation
• Editable 22-slide quiz with 10 question-and-answer pairs
• Wonder Words classroom display
• Reader Question Cards for before, during and after reading
• Supported and independent Picture Question Studio worksheets
• Supported and independent My Question Journey foldables
• Right There or Think More? sorting activity and key
• Fiction and non-fiction passages, questions and answers
• Mystery Headband game with three card sets
• Question Trail board game
• Clue Quest Scoot task-card resources for fiction and non-fiction
• Quick Wonder exit slips
• Two-part Ask, Answer and Prove It assessment with answers
• Questioning Comprehension – Year 1 rubric
• Standalone assessment and rubric PDFs

Learning Focus

• Ask questions before, during and after reading
• Use who, what, when, where, why and how
• Build literal and inferred meaning
• Find evidence in words and pictures
• Distinguish Right There and Think More questions
• Respond to fiction and informative texts
• Explain an answer in a complete thought

Classroom Use

Use the presentation for whole-class modelling, then select supported or independent worksheets for guided reading, literacy rotations or individual practice. Mystery Headband and Question Trail suit partner or small-group work. Clue Quest Scoot can be a movement-based review, task-card centre or paced whole-class lesson. Finish with Quick Wonder exit slips and the two-part assessment, using the rubric for consistent marking.

Formats and Answers

• Formats: PDF and editable Microsoft PowerPoint PPTX
• Unit Plan: 48 pages
• Presentation: 13 slides
• Quiz: 22 slides
• Six matching answer pages plus the Right There or Think More? key
• Suggested duration: 5–8 lessons

Digital Product and Licence

This is a digital product; no physical item is supplied. Purchase grants a single-classroom licence for the purchaser. Redistribution, resale, public posting or sharing outside the licensed classroom is not permitted. Copyright Sukindi.