This content area reading learning activity, ‘Making Postcards,’ helps students strengthen their reading skills by visualising various audiences. It has students create a postcard that demonstrates a relationship between characters or ideas in the text.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Question Games,’ gives students practice with questioning. It is aimed at helping to create a classroom environment that encourages inquiry and investigation by having students answer questions that require them to make inferences, draw conclusions and extend their thinking.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Visualising the Audience,’ helps students develop an understanding of purpose and audience in texts. It is aimed at helping students realise that effective authors will visualise and analyse the audience in order to appeal their needs, beliefs and interests.
This ‘Observation and Inference’ graphic organiser provides a template for students to think critically and analytically about their observations. Students are prompted to record observations, then follow these up with inferences that they have made based on those observations. Finally, students are asked to explain why they have made those inferences. The ability to not …More
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