Reading Activities help students develop their reading skills through the practical application of Reading Strategies. Each Reading Activity listed below comes with specific instructions on how to teach the activity and specific texts that can be taught using the activity.
- Anticipation Guide
- Barrier Games
- Book Walk
- Bookmark
- Brainstorming
- Bubble Thinking
- Building From Clues
- Cause and Effect
- Character Web
- Collaborative Summaries
- Concept Circles
- Directed Reading/Thinking
- Graphing
- Guided Imagery (Primary)
- Guided Imagery (Secondary)
- Jigsaw
- Judge and Jury
- Know-Wonder-Learn
- Listen-Sketch-Draft
- Listen-Sketch-Predict
- Memoir
- Mood Swing
- Oral Retelling
- Paper Bag Presentation
- Picture Book Analysis
- Picture Walk
- Plot Profile – Story Graph
- Plot Profile – Story Map
- Question and Revise
- Question/Answer Relationship
- Read-Draw-Confirm
- Reading Like an Author
- Response Logs/Reflective Journal
- Say Something
- Semantic Mapping/Webbing
- Snatching a Series
- Sociogram
- Sort and Predict
- Sound Effects
- Split Images
- Story Board
- Story Cycles
- Story Grammar
- Tableaux
- Think Aloud/Public Thinking
- Thinking Boxes
- Thinking Like an Author
- Thinking While Reading
- Venn Diagram
- Vocabulary Rating
- Vocabulary Self-Collection
- What’s in a Name?
- What’s Inside?
- Who Said What?
- Word Wall