Expository+Text+Question+Cards

**Expository Text Question Cards**

**Content** This strategy can be used for comprehension of any expository text, but for this lesson its for social studies text.

**Grade Level** This strategy is best implemented in a secondary setting, but for this lesson I used tenth grade content standards and objectives.

**Curriculum Standards** SS.O.10.2.4 compare and contrast documents and philosophies that are the basis for representative democracy in the United States (e.g., Greek, Roman, John Locke, Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights)

**Description of Practices**

1. Hand out a passage with a concept/definition type to each student. 2. Tell students that the text is the concept/definition type. 3. Provide the students with the card set for the concept/definition type. 4. Model how the students can use the sample questions on the card to ask and answer specific questions about the content. 5. Hand out another passage with the concept/definition type to each student. 6. Have the students take turns reading. 7. During reading, periodically stop the students from reading, and ask several students to use the sample questions on the card to ask and answer specific questions about the content. 8. Use the same procedure for expository reaing passages with other text structure types (e.g., cause and effect, compare and contrast).

**Implementation Considerations** This strategy can be used in all settings. This strategy allows to students to comprehend social studies text during reading. This strategy can be used to compare two concepts in social studies.

**Example** This website has examples of the comprehension cards used in this strategy: []

**Citation** Russell Gersten, Lynn S. Fuchs, Joanna P. Williams and Scott Baker Review of Educational Research, Vol. 71, No. 2 (Summer, 2001), pp. 279-320

Vaughn, S., & Bos, C. (2009). //Strategies for teaching students with learning and behavior problems//. Columbus, Ohio: Pearson Education Inc.