This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Chickenpox’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Creative Mapping,’ encourages students to organise the information they know about a subject. It is aimed at enhancing students’ comprehension of the text by having them create a visual representation of the subject being discussed.
This graphic organiser, ‘Facts or Opinions’ helps students divide information into two categories, showing their reading comprehension.
This graphic organiser, ‘Helen Keller Facts or Opinions’ helps students distinguish facts from opinions after reading about Helen Keller.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Semantic Mapping,’ encourages students to organise the information they know about the subject. It is aimed at enhancing students’ comprehension of the text by having them create a visual representation of the subject being discussed.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘The Brand New Excelsior’, features an advertisement for a futuristic motor car. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about reasoning, making a judgment, drawing a conclusion, fact/opinion, detail, author’s purpose, genre, and categorising. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Poetry worksheet, ‘The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere’, features Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem about the start of the American Revolution. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about comparison/contrast, vocabulary, sequence, detail, figurative language, vocabulary, author’s purpose, categorising, and literary devices. Answer sheet provided …More
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Rhyming Author’ encourages students to use prior knowledge and experience to understand and respond to new information. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
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