Reading strategy activities

Teaching reading skills can be daunting; there is no doubt about that! We have to help each other out, so I want to share some fun reading comprehension games

I have used the reading workshop model for about 8 years now. It has changed a lot over the years! One thing that has stayed the same is the ‘Respond to Text’ station. This is a time where students get to write about their reading. The station stays the same all year, but the activities in the station change. Below is a list of activities you can add to your ‘Respond to Text’ station at the beginning of the year. 1. Bookmark Book Report At the beginning of the year, some students struggle to…

Complete This Color-as-You-Go Reading Challenge

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Free Main Idea and Details Graphic Organizer Reading Response Craft

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Motivate students with independent reading by adding engaging reading sprints...turn the traditional reading log upside down!

Student Book Recommendation Sheets! What a great way to get kids talking about books they read. Perfect for first grade or second grade!

Retelling stories is a skill that not all children possess naturally. Some like to retell every single detail, while others leave out important information to the story. That’s why using a retelling chart or organizer is helpful. When it was time for my Kindergartner and 1st grader to work on retelling this school year, I ... Read More about What’s the SCOOP? Retelling Chart

Reading strategies useful in every content area include Questioning the text, Visualization, and using Context Clues to infer meaning.

HOTS (higher order thinking) task cards. Get your kiddos’ higher thinking skills flowing with these HOTS Reading Task Cards. The pack includes 50 different activities which are split into the following themes: character, author, plot, setting, book and text connections. Encouraging higher level thinking is especially important in reading in order to ensure that students develop critical comprehension skills. These are not your ordinary reading task cards; no recall questions or other…

Discover my favorite activities that are aligned with the science of reading curriculum to help your young learns master reading fast.

You want your kids to spark to writing, but how do you do that? Enter these entertaining and fun writing games for kids!

This activity is a great innovation to the classic KWL which offers a final project to assess students stages of knowledge building throughout an inquiry. Educators are able to assess the students abilities to connect to prior experiences (schema), wonderings about a topic and lastly their learnings. As stated in RP, engaging with text is an interaction. With all learning students are interacting with new knowledge. This activity explicitly showcases the interaction between prior and new…

Make reading fun and engaging for your preschool or elementary student with these free, printable reading passports.

Reading Task Cards. Great for guided reading. Includes 44 questions- character, setting, plot, opinion, vocabulary and design.

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