How to Comprehend

Scripture: Acts 8:1-40

Learning Objectives:

  • Students will learn God opened the Church to Samaritans after the Jews.
  • Students will learn God does not want us to become Christians so we can get what we want in life.
  • Students will learn God wants the good news about Jesus to be told to everyone in the world.
  • Students will learn how to use various comprehension strategies.

Guiding Question: How can students use comprehension strategies to understand a challenging text?

Materials: Printed copies of the passage the Eunuch was reading, pencils, highlighters

Procedure: Review the story of Philip and how the Ethiopian Eunuch came to be saved. Discuss how Philip shared his faith with the Eunuch and the importance of baptism in the conversion process. Explain that people called missionaries go around the world to help people and share God with them in hopes of converting them to Chrsitianity. Even if our job is not to go around the world, we can still be missionaries in our school and other places we go with people. We can share God through our words and actions. God desires that all people know about Him and become Christians.

Introduce the activity. Give the students the passage the Eunuch was reading and trying to understand. Help students come up with comprehension strategies for difficult material (repeated readings, summarizing information, looking up new vocabulary, etc.)

Additional Questions: How can students comprehend Biblical text?

Supplemental Activity: Provide students with a passage or story from the Bible (one that is at an appropriate level for them). Have the students apply comprehension strategies to figure out the meaning behind the text.

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