Reading

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[|Into The Book] - a great site with information, videos and activities for really good reading strategies.

You can also try these strategies during guided reading:

** Think Alouds **
(Dr. Sharon H. Faber, 2006)
 * Teacher reads text orally, stops and then “thinks aloud” to model how learners should make connections that develop better comprehension.
 * Keep reading to see if author explains what you don’t understand.
 * Reread to see if you missed something.
 * Read back to the part you don’t understand or read forward and skip confusing words.
 * Reflect on what you’ve read and look for an explanation based on your prior knowledge.
 * Look for answers beyond the text.

Anticipation Guide Strategy
(Tierney, Readence, and Dishner) Before, During, and After reading strategy Preparation – The teacher develops 3-5 statements that are related to the topic. Create an **[|anticipation guide]**to copy and give to students. **Pre-Reading:** Discussion, students mark the Before Reading Agree/Disagree choices. **Post-Reading:** Review original choices to see if thinking has changed:
 * Did we find answers to our questions?
 * What questions do we still have?
 * What information did we learn that we did not anticipate before we read?
 * What have we learned by reading this selection?
 * What was the most interesting, unusual, or surprising information you learned?

[|PIC Form]
(Dr. Sharon H. Faber, 2006) Students focus on the most important information and make predictions and develop questions //before// reading. **P**= What is my **P**urpose for reading? **I** = How can I tell what are the **I**mportant Ideas in the text? **C** = What do I already know that I use to make a **C**onnection?

[|3-2-1] Summarizing Strategy
(Dr. Sharon H. Faber, 2006)
 * 3 key ideas I found out from reading
 * 2 things that were especially interesting or especially hard to understand
 * 1 question I still have
 * ** [|3-2-1 Form] **

Column Notes
(Dr. Sharon H. Faber, 2006, based on Cornell Note Taking System)Change column headings to fit objectives/material Best for cause/effect or compare/contrast skills **[|2-Column Notes]** – students fold paper down middle for note taking. 2 Column Notes can be made with: [|**3 Column**][|**Notes**] can be made with:
 * Main idea-headings-details-explanations
 * Cause-effect
 * Vocabulary-definitions
 * Questions-answers
 * Facts-opinions
 * Predications-outcomes
 * Vocabulary – definition- example
 * Topic – explanation – supporting details
 * Process – procedure – results
 * Questions – notes – class discussion
 * Cause – effect - explanation

QAR Question-Answer-Relationship
(Raphael, 1982, 1986) 1. //**Right There**// – the answer is in a single sentence in the text. 2. //**Think and Search**// – The answer is in the text, but in more than one sentence. 3. //**Author and You**// – The answer is not in the text. Reader will use the text and prior knowledge to answer the question. 4. __**On My Own**__ – The answer is not in the text, but is based solely on the readers prior knowledge. [|**QAR Form**]
 * 4 Types: **

[|Visual Reading Guides]
(Stein, 1978) Used to preview the text by noting visuals such as maps, charts, graphs pictures, cartoons, etc. that relate to the content.
 * How is the visual related to the text?
 * Why did the author include the visual?
 * What does the visual show me?
 * How can I use the information from the visual to help me understand the text?
 * Why is the information from the visual important?

Reciprocal Teaching
(Palincsar et al., 1984, 1986) Students are arranged in groups of 4 and given a **[|Reciprocal Teaching worksheet]**. Students read a section of text and assume a role, either summarizer, questioner, clarifier, or predictor. Students take notes on the worksheet and stop at a given point. The summarizer will then give the major points The questioner will ask questions about unclear sections The clarifier will discuss the confusing parts The predictor will guess what will happen next.
 * Combines 4 comprehension strategies: **
 * 1) Summarizing
 * 2) Questioning
 * 3) Clarifying
 * 4) Predicting

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Scanning
Activities and information about using canning as a reading strategy from [|BBC Skillswise.] =Reading Activities=

Online Activities
[|Roy the Singing Zebra] - online reading games - As wide selection of online games at word and sentence level. [|Language Skill Builders] - a huge amount of activities for learning about consonants, vowels, sight words, comprehension, etc [|Language Skill Builders 2]- a huge amount of activities for learning about vowls, syllables, sight words, etc [|Site Words] - a variety of online activities for learning sight words [|What's the Word] - match the correct word to the picture [|Build a Snowman] - answer simple questions to build a snowman. [|Build a Scarecrow]- answer simple questions to build a scarecrow. [|Build a Bookworm] - answer simple questions to build a bookworm. [|Name That Book] - Answer questions about each book cover. Requires some inferencing. [|Sesame Street Games] - a lot of different games on different topics with all the Sesme Street characters. [|Power Words] - Learn a variety of new words by helping Word Girl stop her enemies. A good game. [|Frog's Rhyming Machine] - a rhyming game from Word World. [|Pig's Perfect Pizza] - Find words beginning with the same letter sound to build pizzas. A game from Word World. [|Book Review] - write a book review and share it online at Scholastic. [|Character Scrapbook] - create a character scrapbook about a character you've read about. [|Building Language for Literacy] - letters, rhyming and naming things activities. [|Bembo's Zoo] - an interactive alphabet - animal theme.

Printable Activities
[|Roy the Singing Zebra] - a selection of worksheets and activities that can be printed off. [|Make Your Own Book] - a selection of page templates to choose from. [|Story Map] - from Scholastic [|Read, Relate, Respond] - a reading response activity from Scholastic. [|Build a Connection] - a reading response activity about making connections with the text.

Online Activities
[|Language Skill Builders 3] - a huge amount of activities for learning about story elements, comprehension, sequencing, etc [|Language Skill Builders 4]- a huge amount of activities for learning about point of view, cause and effect,k vocabulary, etc [|Comprehension Activities] - a variety of online comprehension activities [|Site Words] - a variety of online activities for learning sight words [|Name That Book] - Answer questions about each book cover. Rerquires some inferencing. [|Power Words] - Learn a variety of new words by helping Word Girl stop her enemies. A good game. [|Comic Strip Capers] - Read the comic strip and choose the correct words to complete the sentences. [|Book Review] - write a book review and share it online at Scholastic. [|Character Scrapbook] - create a character scrapbook about a character you've read about.

Printable Activities
[|Make Your Own Book] - a selection of page templates to choose from. [|Story Map] - from Scholastic [|Read, Relate, Respond] - a reading response activity from Scholastic. [|Book Recommendation Cards] - from Scholastic.

Online Activities
[|Sticky Situation]- Students go to the site and read a 'Sticky Situation'. Then they can also read some of the comments other students have left. Afterwards they should leave their own comment explaining what they would do in that situation. [|Fact Fragment Frenzy] - A great activity for learning about taking notes. Students should w atch the demo first, then complete fact fragment frenzys of their own. [|Reading Comprehension] - Students read an article and then answer comprehension and vocabulary questions. There a variety of articles to read. [|Character Trading Cards] - A great activity where students can create trading cards about characters from a book they've read. [|Crossword Puzzle] **-** Students can create a crossword puzzle of comprehension for the story or article they have just read. They need to create both questions (clues) and answers (words). [|Comprehension Activities] - a variety of online comprehension activities [|Book Review] - write a book review and share it online at Scholastic. [|Character Scrapbook] - create a character scrapbook about a character you've read about.

Printable Activities
[|Story Map] - from Scholastic [|Understanding 'Character' Analysis] - from Scholastic [|Character Analysis Chart] - from Scholastic [|Author Tools] - track imagery, similes, hyperbole and metaphors with this sheet. [|Book Recommendation Cards] - from Scholastic.

=Reading Online=

Newer Readers
[|Children's Storybooks Online] - a variety of books with pictures. [|Storyline Online]- books read aloud by (sometimes) famous actors [|Short Stories from the British Council]- a collection of animated stories that students can read and listen to. [|Stories for Little Kids from the British Council]- a collection of younger stoires that can be read or listened to [|Animated Aesop's Fables]- students can listen to these stories [|Mighty Book Story Books] - animated story books that students can listen to or read [|CBeebies Storybooks] - Animated stories that students can listen to. [|Inkless Tales]- Stories and poems that students can read. A bit more difficult than others in this category. [|Clifford Interactive Storybooks] [|Starfall.com]- a great collection of fiction, non-fiction, folktales, comics and more. Students can read and listen to the text. [|Poems from Starfall.com]- Students can read the poems and click on individual words to hear them. [|Big Books]- a collection of stories that students can read [|Fairy Tales]- a great collection of fairy tales for students to read. There are also activities with each story. [|Sebastian Swan]- great interactive books for students to read. [|Stories from Rainbows Edge] [|Merpy Stories]- a collection of stories that scroll through the pages on their own. [|Tumble Books]- from the NY Public Library. Students can listen to or read well known books at all levels. [|Children's Books Online]- Best if downloaded [|Giggle Poetry]- There are lots of poems to read and rate. [|My Own Books] - Insert the student and teacher name right into the book. Can be printed off. [|Roy The Singing Zebra] - a series of 9 of guided reading texts online. [|Books with Sound] - a variety of online books with sound [|Books Without Sound] - a variety of online books without sound [|Plays] - a variety of plays for students to read [|Nursery Rhymes] - a larger variety of nursery rhymes for students to read [|Silly Books] - animated books that can be read or listened to by student [|A Dog's Life] - an interactive online story [|Read Book Reviews] - organised by grade level and genre. [|Online Stories and Poems] - a list of sites with poems and stories to read online. [|Storynory] - free audio stories for kids. It is an online treasure trove of audio stories. Here you will find a mixture of new stories, fairy tales, and specially adapted myths and histories. We also have a sprinkling of verse. We have published an audio story every week since November 2005.

More Advanced Readers
[|On This Day] - A site that tells you what happened in history on each day of the year. [|Kids Mysteries] - A number of mystery stories that you can try to solve. [|Aesop's Fables] - all of Aesop's Fables as well as the fairy tales of Hans Christen Andersen. Most of them can be listened to as well. [|Short Stories] - a selection of short stories. [|Ghost Stories]- if you dare! [|The Adventures of Sydney] - a really neat interactive story. [|Simple Short Stories] - a small collection [|The World Wide School Library] - a huge collection of online texts - fiction and non-fiction. [|Lit2Go] - a large number of texts that you can download as mp3s, read online, or print off. All levels. [|The 100 Most Important People of the Century] - from TIME magazine [|Awesome Stories]- check this out! Text, pictures, slideshows and videos! A wide variety of stories, poems and articles. [|Longer Stories from the British Council] - a variety of storiues to read. Most of them can be listen to as well. [|RIF Reading Planet]- 4 online stories to read [|Tumble Books]- from the NY Public Library. Students can listen to or read well known books at all levels. [|Children's Books Online] - best if downloaded [|International Children's Digital Library]- lots of books, organised by year level. A bit fiddly to move from page to page. Books at all levels. [|Giggle Poetry] - lots of poems to read and rate. [|Grimm's Fairy Tales]- a list of fairy tales. Some have audio included. [|New Zealand Biographies] [|My Own Books]- Students can instert their own names ino the books. Can be printed off. [|Classics Illustrated Comic Books] - Classic stories in comic book form [|Discovery Kids Online] - Students can rad about a variety of topics [|Weekly Classic Short Stories] - podcasts of a variety of short stories [|Inanimate Alice] - an interactive story (including pics, video, sounds, etc). Extends into more mature themes. [|Encyclopedia Mythica] - read information about Greek, Roman, Norse and Celtic mythology [|American Folklore] - a variety of folk tales, tall tales, short stories and myths and legends [|Folk Legends of Japan] [|Highlights] - a variety of short stories that students can read [|A Dog's Life] - an interactive online story [|Read Book Reviews] - organised by grade level and genre. [|Myths From Around the World] - a great collection of myths to read. [|Online Stories and Poems] - a list of stories and poems to read online. [|Storynory] - free audio stories for kids. [|Fairy Tales]

Online News
[|Time for Kids] [|Scholastic News] [|PBS News for Students] [|Kids Post] [|CBBC] [|Young Post]- part of the South China Morning Post for students [|The Standard]- not a student site, but sometimes easier to read than other news sites. [|Google News] [|Newseum] - front pages from newspapers all over the world [|National Geographic for Kids - News] [|CNN Student News] [|Science News for Kids] [|South China Morning Post] [|The Week in Pictures] - a great resource from BBC [|Sports Illustrated For Kids] - mostly North American sports [|Current Events News Blog]- aimed a​t year 6-8

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