This kids news activity, ‘Texters Studied In New Research’ reports on research into texting and ethical thinking.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Alaskan Wilderness’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information given in the text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Assembly Line’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This kids news activity, ‘The Biggest Swimming Pool In The World’ is about a resort in Chile with a pool that holds as much water as 6, 000 regular swimming pools.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Charreada’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Dust Bowl’ encourages students to use text organisers to determine the main ideas and to locate information in a text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Invention Convention’ encourages students to write a plan for creating an invention. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Key to Fluency’ allows each student to organise their thoughts about a book, evaluate the book and then promote it to their classmates through a book talk.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Key to Fluency for Olivia’ asks students to evaluate the book Olivia by Ian Falconer, then use the information to give a book talk to try to convince others to read it.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Mountain Lion’ encourages students to use text organisers to determine the main ideas and to locate information in a text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Mudpuppy’ encourages students to use text organisers to determine the main ideas and to locate information in a text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, “The Nez Perce and the Appaloosas” encourages students to determine whether statements in a story are facts or opinions. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Order of the Day’ asks students to place events and important facts in sequential order as they occur in a textbook.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Order of the Day for Volcanoes’ asks students to write the events from the non-fiction text, Danger! Volcanoes by Seymour Simon in sequential order.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Radio Show that Frightened Thousands’ 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 6 readers.
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.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Solution Scoop’ asks students to identify and evaluate the problems and solutions in a story.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Solution Scoop for The Pain and the Great One’ asks students to read The Pain and the Great One by Judy Blume, then identify problems and solutions found in the book and create other solutions for the two siblings.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Story of Basketball’ encourages students to develop an understanding of structural patterns or organisation in informational texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Topic at Hand’ supports students in developing their writing skills, focusing on topic sentences and paragraph structure.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Topic at Hand for the Animals’ supports students in developing their writing skills, focusing on topic sentences and paragraph structure in their animal drafts.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Way We Get Around’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Theme: Describing an Alien’ supports students in learning to organise ideas and consider word choice in their writing.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Transitional Words’ encourages students to identify and use transitional words in sentences.
This kids news activity, ‘Underwater Dolphin Rescue Caught On Video’ is about an unusual interaction between a diver and a dolphin captured on video.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Using a Map’ supports students learning about the representation of directions.
This graphic organiser, ‘Visualisation Wheel’ provides a structure with which students can recall and record the images and descriptions that come to mind as they read.
This kids news activity, ‘Want To Be An Astronaut? A New Post Just Opened Up’ reports on the retirement of well-known Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘ We Are Family’ encourages students to learn about setting, main characters, events and sequence in stories. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Webs,’ helps students organise information in a nonfiction text. It is aimed at teaching students to locate information before reading the text.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘What’s The Weather?’ encourages students to use mental images, stimulated by words to aid in the comprehension of text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Where Did the Dinosaurs Go?’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This graphic organiser, ‘Who Am I?’ asks students to research various people by reading biographies and applying the information they find to their own lives.
This graphic organiser, ‘Who Am I? for Scientists’ asks students to read biographies of important scientists and create a Who Am I? game.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Working It Out’ encourages students to relate story events, characters, conflicts and themes to personal experiences. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This kids news activity, ‘World Honours Young Activist With Malala Day’ is about Malala Yousafzai and her campaign for the right to an education for girls.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘World War 1’ encourages students to make, confirm and revise predictions about a text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This kids news activity, ‘World’s First Private Spacecraft Makes Successful Trip To International Space Station’ is about an American company that sent its unmanned Dragon spacecraft into space.
This kids news activity, ‘World’s Smallest Chameleon Discovered’ is about a tiny reptile found on an island near Madagascar.
This kids news activity, ‘Zebra Dung May Be New Fuel Source’ is about research into alternative sources of eco-friendly bio-fuels.
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