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Comprehension Card Games for Kids

Comprehension Card Games for kids are interactive learning tools. Cards provide numerous suggestions for increasing children's levels of analysis and understanding. Typically tailored to specific readings, cards suggest activities that will make children think about what they have just read. Games encourage the use of imagination, and develop memory skills. They teach kids to treat reading as a window on a wider world, using their own experiences as a way of conducting more extensive exploration.

Arrangement of Comprehension Cards
- Kids' comprehension card games are arranged in sets. Each card contains instructions for a specific skill-building activity. As an example, the first card in a set might ask children to predict what happens to the characters in a particular story. The activity trains children to use existing knowledge as the basis for creating logical assumptions about the future. In this way, reading becomes a bridge to critical thinking.
  
  Cards follow logically according to skills introduced. After making their predictions, kids might be asked to connect their ideas to specific ideas and events in the story. This can be followed by group work during which children brainstorm about possibilities. At this point, teachers introduce elements of plot structure and literary style. They teach children why an author might have chosen to introduce particular elements or characters at particular points in the narrative. Teachers and students may explore the use of language and characterization.
Finding Comprehension Cards
- Numerous educational supply sites offer comprehension card games for kids. Cards are broken down by age and skill level. Criteria generally match standard school grades. Basic reading comprehension, for example, can be found in sets aimed at first and second graders, while more advanced material features longer passages with more advanced vocabulary and weightier themes. Lower level cards often use pictures along with words to increase children's comprehension and stimulate recall and imagination.
  
  Sites, such as PCI Education and LinguiSystems, list their comprehension cards by theme. Cards are available in both fiction and non-fiction, with fictional tales helping to build real world knowledge and skills. Themes relate to questions children often ask about the adult world, or focus on kids' love of nature or sports. Cards encourage children to perform activities they enjoy, including drawing pictures and playing board games. Comprehension card games for kids create a coherent whole out of what can often seem disjointed activities and skills.

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