Creative reading exercises.
Presentation "Intensive and extensive reading"
●Role
play! Have groups read the same book and
act it out in a play
●Students
create a "wish list" of books and then partner up to explain that
list
●Alternate
story ending - Students retell the story with a different ending
●Further
the storyline - Have students tell what happens when the story ends
●Have
the students tell the story from another point of view - another character who
is not the narrator
●Students
create book reviews and recommend favorites to classmates
●Practice
and play with different voices and intonation, be creative and silly
●Compare
two books by the same author
●Use
non-fiction books for research projects, such as reports on animals
●Have
students create a poster or brochure about the text
●miming
vocab or essential words
●drawings
to help Ss
understand
●have
students draw while the teacher reads
●Use
art, have your students draw something from the story and then present it to
the class
●Encourage
all forms of reading - books, comics, magazines, anything!
●Devote
class time to silent reading to increase the habit and make sure it gets done
●Consider
starting a series to spark interest - Harry Potter, The Boxcar Children
●Play
a game
●Take
a field trip to the public library
●Find
a TV/video component to tie in visual learners
●Questions
for or a letter to a character in the book or the author
●Re-write
the story in 100 words
●encourage
accents, mood, comedy
●design
invitations or something else from the story
●moving
stories from the past to the future or present
●Have
a competition of some sort
●Running
dictation (literally)
●Physical
activity, such as a story on the wall
●Back
to back reading (also literally)
●Use
social media or technology to engage the readers, such as a QR code
●Take
a field trip related to the text
●Use
a video or audio lead in
●Play
jeopardy with information from the text
●Make
a treasure hunt for questions
●Have
the students write the questions about the text
●Create
a faux Facebook page for the main character
●compare
book with film
●design
a cover before looking at the original cover or design a new or different one
●retell
story using key vocab
●fly
swat game – first player to put their hand over the correct answer on the board
wins
●websites
to make a comic strip
●creating
opposites to create a new story
●pulling
questions about the text that relate to real life
●look
for real life places that relate to the book, or online
●field
trip related to the book
●tips
on how to avoid or create the situation in the book
●library
treasure hunt
●role
play situation not exactly like the text
●music
and poetry
●DEAR
time – drop everything and read
●make
a dramatic monologue from a character
●correct
the text
Web resources:
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Free,
downloadable graded readers
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Good
for mixed level classrooms - readers with different level
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Available
in many different formats, such as epub, mobi, fb2, rtf, txt or online
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Tons
of stories and searchable by level
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The
reading section has classic stories with mp3 audio
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Also
lots of other great resources on this website!
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35,000
eBooks, learning videos, and quizzes
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For
ages K-12
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Free
library of content, curriculum, and tools
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Based
on cognitive science
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Online
assignments, progress reports, etc.
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