Kids make me puzzled sometimes... @ 繪出英文力

Every time when I read a picture book to my kids, I always have a goal to achieve, such as teaching new vocabulary, or certain concepts.

Today I read a picture book - The Crocodile and the Dentist to my Grade 1 kids. The story is simple and straightforward so I decided to spend more time on the vocabulary that I want to teach them.

Through the story, the kids leared these 3 words -

1. brave: someone that is not scared of anything

2. awful: something that is terrible

3. the worst: something that is very very bad when comparing with the other things

The kids had no problem understanding the meanings of the words, but when I asked them to do the reading comprehension exercise by themselves the problem occurred. (Refer to the questions below.)

I guess the problem is because they can't read to themselves; otherwise, it should be easy for them to pick up the answers from the choices I made. The evidence for this is when I read the choices for some of the kids who chose the wrong answers at the first place , they all gave me the correct ones once they heard all the choices I read.

The conclusion is that the kids I encountered should have no problems with listening comprehension. However, they certainly need to spend more time on reading in order to comprehense what they've read better.

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Here is the reading comprehension worksheet:

1. A dentist is a doctor who takes care of your .

2. is the animal that has a toothache in the story.

3. How did the dentist and the crocodile feel when they saw each other?

a) scared b) happy

4. Which sentence sounds “brave”?

a) Brush your teeth every day.

b) Take good care of your sister when daddy and mommy are not at home.

5. Which sentence sounds “the worst”?

a) You are the only one in the forest.

b) Have ice cream every day.