This graphic organiser, ‘Asking Questions’ supports the teaching of comprehension and research skills by prompting students to ask questions based on what they want to know.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Book Jacket,’ teaches students about how examining the book jacket can yield useful information in deciding whether or not to keep reading. It encourages students to identify the information in the book jacket that matches their purpose for reading and connections to prior knowledge and personal experience.
This graphic organiser, ‘Connotation Conundrum’ helps students to find and define new words that have connotative meanings, simultaneously improving their reading vocabulary and increasing their ability to interpret the text.
This graphic organiser, ‘Connotation Conundrum for Harry Potter’ asks students to use the roots, etymological history, and denotative definitions to better understand the connotations embedded in character names in the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Creative Mapping,’ encourages students to organise the information they know about a subject. It is aimed at enhancing students’ comprehension of the text by having them create a visual representation of the subject being discussed.
This graphic organiser, ‘Facts or Opinions’ helps students divide information into two categories, showing their reading comprehension.
This graphic organiser, ‘Genre Grid for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ helps students to identify the literary genre to which The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis belongs.
This graphic organiser, ‘Helen Keller Facts or Opinions’ helps students distinguish facts from opinions after reading about Helen Keller.
This graphic organiser, ‘Inferring Meaning’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by asking students to draw on what they already know to make inferences as they read.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘KWL,’ encourages students to focus on the main idea in a text. It is aimed at enhancing students’ comprehension of the text by having them access their prior knowledge.
This graphic organiser, ‘KWL Plus Chart’ supports the teaching of writing by giving students a template for identifying what they know, want to know, and learn as they plan for writing.
This graphic organiser, ‘Making Connections’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by asking students to record their connections to texts as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Making Connections’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by asking students to record their connections to texts as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Making Connections’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by asking students to record their connections to texts as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Making Inferences’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by asking students to draw on what they already know to make inferences as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Making Inferences’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by asking students to draw on what they already know to make inferences as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Making Inferences’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by asking students to think about what they already know to make inferences as they read.
This graphic organiser, ‘Making Inferences’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by asking students to draw on what they already know to make inferences as they read.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Semantic Mapping,’ encourages students to organise the information they know about the subject. It is aimed at enhancing students’ comprehension of the text by having them create a visual representation of the subject being discussed.
This graphic organiser, ‘Synthesising Information’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by prompting students to combine facts from words and diagrams as they read a text.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘The Fascinating Foreword,’ teaches students about the function and purpose of the foreword. It is aimed at helping students understand that the foreword, preface and/or introduction all provide critical information to the reader that becomes the foundation for deciding whether or not to keep reading.
This graphic organiser, ‘Triangular Venn Diagram’ asks students to compare attributes and characteristics of various animals, analysing and recording their similarities and differences.
This graphic organiser, ‘Using What You Know’ supports the teaching of comprehension and reading strategies by asking students to record what they already know and what they learn as they read.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Word Detective,’ helps students define unfamiliar words in context. It is aimed at helping students build vocabulary and become successful readers.
This graphic organiser, ‘Word Splash’ asks students to look a key words from a text and predict outcomes prior to reading.
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