Topic: Text Comprehension Skills
Resource Highlight
In this video from Penn State's School of Theatre production of Twelfth Night, Maria drops a love letter supposedly written by Olivia to Malvolio in his way. Malvolio reads it and resolves to change his behavior to secure Olivia's affections.
- Comprehension Strategies (36 resources)
- Critical Reading (86)
- Literary Elements (27)
- Identifying the Social and Cultural Context of a Period - The New Negro and the Harlem Renaissance
- Point of View - Rhinoceros
- Drawing Conclusions and Comparing/Contrasting - The Everglades
- The Buzz about Fact and Opinion
- Analyzing and Comparing Perspectives on Issues - Gorillas
- Making Predictions - The Injured Otter
- Using Literary Devices
- Describing Characters - Cloud Grows
- A Character's Perspective - Colonial House
- Persuasive Presentation - Pigeons and Gardens
- Analyzing Information - Can Pigs be Pets?
- Identifying Important and Unimportant Details - An Ornithologist's Job
- Incorporating Flashbacks in Narrative Text - The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
- What Do You Infer? Animal Shelter
- Comparing Education Around the World
- Twelfth Night Act 2 Sc 3 Lesson Plan
- Prior Knowledge - What Do You Know About Dogs?
- Drawing Conclusions - Miss Navajo
- Twelfth Night Act 1 Sc 3 Lesson Plan
- Twelfth Night Act 1 Sc 2 Lesson Plan
- Twelfth Night Act 1 Sc 1 Lesson Plan
- Main Ideas and Supporting Details on Two Topics - Neeraj and Moths
- Character Motivation - Duke
- Twelfth Night Act 1 Sc 5 Lesson Plan
- Twelfth Night Act 1 Sc 4 Lesson Plan
- Identifying Social, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives - Dogs That Changed the World
- Comparing and Contrasting - Grassland, Desert, and Forest Elephants
- Use of Symbolism to Convey the Author's Message - The Negro Speaks of Rivers
- Paraphrasing - Timbuktu in Your Own Words
- Analogies - The Baka of Cameroon, West Africa
- Character Development - Flora
- Using Descriptive Language - Inventing Your Own Bug!
- Making and Monitoring Predictions - Pet Advice and Jamaica Bay
- Compare and Contrast Information from Multiple Sources - Wolong's Pandas
- Developing Supporting Ideas - A Garden Grows in Brooklyn
- Identifying Cultural and Ethnic Values - Dance Theatre of Harlem
- Using Prior Knowledge from Personal Experiences - Understanding Duke Ellington
- Cause and Effect Relationships - Silence of the Bees
- Identifying the Social and Cultural Contexts of a Time Period - The Journey of the Jewish Americans
- What's the Author's Purpose? Animal Shelter
- Identifying Different Perspectives - Camilo's Drums
- Twelfth Night Act 4 Sc 1 Lesson Plan
- Twelfth Night Act 4 Sc 2 Lesson Plan
- Twelfth Night Act 4 Sc 3 Lesson Plan
- Drawing Conclusions - Is This a Map of the Underground Railroad?
- Twelfth Night Act 3 Sc 4 Lesson Plan
- Main Idea and Details - Cloud
- Twelfth Night Act 3 Sc 1 Lesson Plan
- Comparing and Contrasting - Explorers of Yesterday and Today
- Twelfth Night Act 3 Sc 3 Lesson Plan
- Twelfth Night Act 3 Sc 2 Lesson Plan
- Point of View - Sharing a Perspective on Music
- Analyzing an Issue From Three Perspectives - Smoking in Public Places
- Identifying Supporting Evidence from a Text - What is a Hero?
- Twelfth Night Act 2 Sc 2 Lesson Plan
- Recurring Themes - The Lives of Nanavi and Neeraj
- Twelfth Night Act 2 Sc 1 Lesson Plan
- Identifying Main Idea and Supporting Details - The Stonecutter's Wish
- Facts or Opinions - Wonderful Worms
- Twelfth Night Act 2 Sc 4 Lesson Plan
- Twelfth Night Act 2 Sc 5 Lesson Plan
- Determining Solutions to a Problem - Fire Cloud
- Creating a Hypothesis - The Intelligent Robot
- Interpreting Characters, Setting, Plot, and Theme - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Disaster
- Understanding Story Elements - Who, What, Where
- Using Story Elements to Write a Rap
- Compare and Contrast - City Pigeons and City Parrots
- Character Development - Nanavi, A Girl from Benin, West Africa
- Twelfth Night Act 5 Lesson Plan
- Form an Opinion - Cats
- Fact or Opinion - Manatees
- Drawing Conclusions - Polka Town, U.S.A.
- Interpreting Data, Facts and Ideas from Informational Texts - A Different Kind of Fuel
- Determining Main Idea and Supporting Details - Wild in the City
- Techniques of Persuasive Presentations - Ebony, the Elephant Calf