Fast Finishers English: Non-fiction Ages 10-11 by Scholastic (author)

This box of Fast Finishers comprehension cards covers:

• High-interest short
  passages of text along with five comprehension questions
  that prompt students to identify and effectively cite text
  evidence

• A variety of genres
  Comprehension-helper
  cards that provide kid-friendly definitions, tips,
  and examples to help students master reading skills

On each of the 100 text cards there is a passage
of age-appropriate text with an illustration and five comprehension
questions related to the passage. The 10 different
questions types in this non-fiction box are:

• Author’s Purpose
  - Questions focused on the reason the author chose to write
  a text. Authors may write with more than one purpose in mind.

• Cause and Effect
  - Questions focused on an event or action
  that makes something happen in a story and the result or consequence
  of that event or action.

• Compare and Contrast
  - Questions
  focused on looking closely at two or more things (characters,
  settings, plots, etc.) to see how they are similar. And looking
  closely at two or more things to see how they are different.

• Debate
  - Questions focused on a discussion between two (or
  more) sides with different views.

• Description – Questions
  focused on When words are used to create a ‘picture’ in the mind.

• Fact and Opinion –
  Questions focused on Facts, information that is true and doesn’t
  vary And Opinions, personal beliefs or feelings. Opinions do vary.

• Main Idea and Details – A literal question, one which you
  may remember from reading the text and can answer straight away. One to show that you have read/understood the text. A direct quotation
  is not required.

• Problem and Solution – Questions
  focused on the main problem of a story and the solution to, or
  outcome of, the problem or conflict. Not all resolutions are happy
  ones.

• Sequence of events – Questions focused on the plot
  and the order of events in a plot (beginning, middle, end)

• Summarise
  - Questions focused on creating a brief statement
  about a text using only the most important details.

The fifth question on each card will be a S-T-R-E-T-C-H question,
a creative thinking question such as writing sentences using
words/phrases from the story, describing something from the story,
explaining what might happen next, describing a real-life event
that’s connected to the story, asking an opinion on the story
or character from the story.

Age-appropriate helper cards
provide background information to help children respond
knowledgeably to the comprehension questions. There are 14 helper
cards in this box covering:

• Author’s purpose
• Cause
  and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Context
• Clues
• Debate
• Description
• Fact and Opinion
• Inference
• Information Text
• Main Idea and Details
• Problem and Solution
• Sequence of Events
• Summarise
• Text Evidence

Also includes
a Teacher’s Booklet to provide ideas on how to use the cards
and answers.