Wintery Weather? Warm Up Those Reading Comprehension Skills!

Are you among the thousands of people digging out from a major winter blizzard? Did you know that the amount of snow is not what qualifies a storm as a blizzard? It is the fierce wind and low visibility. If you are desperately waiting for the groundhog to declare an early spring, you might keep your students busy with some fun winter reading comprehension (hot cocoa optional).

My Winter Reading Comprehension game in Google Slides has a variety of questions. Some are straightforward reading comprehension: read the paragraph, find the answer.

Others require an inference, perhaps drawing on background knowledge.

Still others ask students to identify the author’s purpose, which is helpful in understanding a passage.

The Google Slides deck is set up as a game. When students click on an answer, one of the winter images (snowflake, mitten, hat, etc) will spin around. If they are incorrect, they get a chance to try again. One section builds a cup of hot cocoa with each correct answer (if only IRL…In Real Life).

There are fun questions for kids to show off their trivia knowledge, or just learn something new.

Hopefully, this activity will keep kids interested during the long weeks of winter. Then, we can do some Spring reading comprehension! Maybe in six weeks or less, Mr. Groundhog?

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