This content area reading learning activity, ‘Author and Me Analysis,’ helps students understand that they read for a variety of purposes and authors write for a variety of purposes. It has students record important information as they are reading and make connections to their purpose for reading and the author’s purpose for writing.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Cloze Frame,’ can be used to activate prior knowledge. It has students record their thoughts about the text before reading and then record new information they have learned after reading.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Questioning and Inferring,’ helps with building comprehension. It is aimed at helping students make connections while they read a nonfiction text by encouraging them to ask questions and make inferences.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Vocabulary Questioning,’ helps students develop a deeper understanding of new vocabulary words. It has students answer questions about how a word connects to a personal experience, to other words, to sensory details, similes and metaphors, how it is useful and examples of the word.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘What is the Title?’ helps students understand the purpose of the title and its connection to the text. It has students come up with a title for a text in which the title has been deleted or covered up.
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