This content area reading learning activity, ‘Examining Multiple Texts,’ motivates students to examine multiple texts. It has students preview three different texts and think about how the text would help them to achieve their purpose for reading.
This graphic organiser, ‘Four-Square Perspective’ enables students to make connections and understand relationships as they piece together disconnected information.
This graphic organiser, ‘Four-Square Perspective for Bridge to Terabithia’ asks students to examine different points of view in order to better understand conflict in a story.
This graphic organiser, ‘Past, Present, & Future’ helps students to arrange events related to time including what might occur in the future.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Reciprocal Teaching,’ guides students to make inferences about the material they are reading. It is aimed at helping students think beyond the actual printed words on the page and uses four basic skills: summarising, questioning, clarifying and predicting.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Changing Continents’ helps students to learn about plate tectonics, looking at the past, present and future.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Think Aloud,’ encourages students to find the main idea in a text. It helps students use strategies such as predicting, and questioning and rereading in order to figure out unfamiliar words.
This content area reading activity, ‘Williamsburg: a Visit to the Past’ is a history based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to learn about and practise predicting when reading.
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