This Writing Traits activity, ‘Expository Writing’ encourages students to identify and write factual statements.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Feeling and Tone in Writing’ encourages students to identify a positive or negative feeling and tone in a paragraph.
This graphic organiser, ‘It’s in the Cards’ asks students to evaluate fluent readers and non-fluent readers.
This Writing Traits activity, ‘Sentence Structure: Problems & Solutions’ encourages students to identify a problem and suggest a solution.
This graphic organiser, ‘Take One’ allows students to make predictions, explain the meaning of a text and summarise as they read aloud.
This graphic organiser, ‘Take One for the Pigeon’ asks students to participate in a think-aloud using the story, The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! to demonstrate their comprehension of the texts.
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.