This content area reading learning activity, ‘Conceptual Inferencing,’ teaches students to retain factual information using concept-based principles. It is aimed at showing students how to make their inferences connect to their conceptual understandings and the guiding questions they have been exploring.
This hands-on activity, ‘Gravity and Orbits 1’ asks students to draw the orbit of a planet around the sun and investigate the relationship between distance and the force of gravity.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Question Web,’ has students add information related to a single question as they read the text. It is aimed at helping students develop skills in questioning and is especially practical for small cooperative research groups.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Step-by-Step Paraphrasing,’ helps students identify and capture significant information. It is aimed at developing students’ skills in summarising by having them combine information into a summary of what’s most important.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Webs,’ encourages students to find the main idea in nonfiction texts. It is aimed at enhancing students’ comprehension of the text by having them create a visual representation of the subject being discussed.
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This writing organiser ‘Narratives’ supports students to plan for writing a narrative to tell a story.