Comprehension Programme
Our Comprehension Programme at Merry Minds is designed to enhance both reading and listening comprehension skills. Through engaging activities and carefully crafted lessons, children learn to understand and interpret texts and spoken language effectively. This comprehensive approach helps students improve their ability to grasp main ideas, make inferences, and connect information across different contexts.
Check out more details about the programme below.
(Part-A)
Reading Comprehension
Active Reading
Have the children engage actively with text by highlighting and underlining based on questions.
Questioning and Summarizing
Get the children to as questions before, during and after reading. The teacher prompts questions to stimulate and promote children’s critical thinking. The children also learn how to summarise main ideas or points in their own words.
Practice with Varied Texts
The children will be exposed to a variety of texts- fiction, non-fiction, articles, posters, flyers, leaflets, timetable and etc.
Vocabulary Building
The children are introduced to new vocabulary in the passage. Learn some new vocabulary weekly and record them in the Word Bank book.
Visualization
Encourage the children to create mental images while reading. Interactive games and activities are used to enhance this technique.
Comprehension Cloze
Teach children to use context clues effectively to understand missing words and refine their grammar skills necessary to master Comprehension Cloze passages.
(Part-B)
Listening Comprehension
Storytelling
After a storytelling session, there will be a discussion session to discuss key points, characters, or events to assess the children’s comprehension.
Active Listening
The children will listen to short audio clips or podcasts and answer the questions on the worksheet afterward.
Vocabulary Expansion
Introduce and explain new vocabulary words before listening exercises.
Role-Play
There will be role-playing activities where the children listen to a scenario and then act out or discuss their interpretations.
Dual-Sensory Approach
Encourage the children to create mental images while reading. Interactive games and activities are used to enhance this technique.
