During+Reading+Activities

Post ideas for during reading/listening or viewing activities here.

= Purposes of During Reading Activities: =


 * **A**pply reading strategies
 * **B**reak up (scaffold) the text
 * **C**ritically process the content/meaning of the text
 * **D**evelop interpersonal communication skills
 * **E**valuate comprehension

**During Reading/Listening/Viewing Activity Ideas:**
 * **Checklists** - Mark off items from a list when you hear them during the text


 * **Choral Repetition** - Chant a repeated phrase each time it comes up in the text


 * **Cloze Passages** - Fill in missing words while listening to or viewing a text (usually with targeted grammatical structures or vocabulary topics)


 * **[|Compare & Contrast]** - Students compare and contrast how two characters, situations, or texts are similar and different


 * **Dramatize** - Act out passages from the text


 * **Drawing** - Color or draw a picture according to the description in the text


 * **Graphic Organizers** - Synthesize or summarize the text using a graphic organizers


 * **Highlight** - Mark unknown words/segments as they read, then after reading, pair up and guess meaning from context


 * **Illustrate** - Illustrate an assigned chapter or segment from a text. Class then summarizes/retells the events which occurred using the illustrations as prompts


 * **Journals** - Jot down meaningful quotes from the text and react to them in journals; keep a journal from the perspective of one of the characters/speakers, write an explanation of an event from the point of view of another character, write letters among characters at critical points in the story


 * **Manipulatives** - Move items according to the action in the text (paper dolls, scenes, etc.)


 * **Make Connections** - Make connections between prior knowledge and content of the text


 * **Maps** - Draw a map as described in the text, map the story, trace a character's journey on a map


 * **[|Opinion/Proof]** - Students make assertions or list personal opinions about a topic or text, then search the text for "proof" they can use to support their assertions


 * **Paraphrase** - Paraphrase sections of the text


 * **[|QAR]**


 * **Questions** - Generate questions about the text


 * **[|Reading Comprehension Strategies]**


 * **[|Responding to Non-fiction Template]**


 * **Scavenger Hunt** - Locate key ideas, words, or evidence for a particular argument in the text


 * **[|Selective Underlining]** - Teach students to read purposefully and strategically using this strategy


 * **[|Semantic Feature Analysis]** - Students complete a chart with +/- to indicate whether or not the characteristics on the list are present for each character or text


 * **Sequence** - Sequence images or events from the text as they appear


 * **Signal Cards** - Hold up relevant images, objects, or words when they are described in the text


 * **[|Sound Effects Read Aloud Activity]** - From the Comprehensible Classroom (See also [|Auditions for Sound Effects Read Aloud])


 * **[|SQ4R]** - Students survey the text, ask questions about it, read, recite, relate the text to themselves, and review


 * **Subtitles** - Divide the text into structural segments and create a subtitle for each


 * **[|Text Rendering Protocol]**- Students identify the sentence that means the most to them, then their favorite phrase, then their favorite word


 * **[|Think-Pair-Share]** - Good for periodically processing the text


 * **[|Three-minute Pause]** - Summarize, add own thoughts, generate clarifying questions


 * **[|Venn Diagram]** ([|2], [|3], [|with summary]) - Compare and contrast textual elements


 * **Visualize** - Visualize or illustrate portions of the text


 * ** __Vocabulary Word Map__ **
 * Help session after a period of individual silent reading in which cognates, synonyms, paraphrasing, drawing, or gestures are used to make the text more comprehensible without resorting to English

**Listening:**

Here are a few samples: I love them, they are great for comprehension and for classroom management! user:cartierm
 * Listening grids**- A way to keep the REST of the class occupied while individual students are responding - [|chericem1]


 * Checks**- To build confidence, have the students watch (or listen to) some media and have the students simply write a check on a piece of paper when they hear a word they DO understand a word they hear. This is NOT a good activity for general comprehension, but it helps build confidence when you have students who have high anxiety about listening. user:cartierm

You have 6-8 pages with directions, and the kids just fold and go. You give them a time frame to stop reading and write (for example after every page, paragraph etc, depending on how long the text is) And the directions say things like: Draw what happened, draw what might happen next Write 1 sentence that summarizes what you just read, Write a question about what happened Here is an example of one, both in a word and PDF version. And you could easily make this fit your text very well to emphasize the parts of your story that the kids have trouble with (That the great thing about teaching something 2x!!!) This idea and the sample booklet come from Ioanna Tolios and Connie Zucker user:cartierm
 * Scrunch Book:** ( see directions here: http://www.vickiblackwell.com/makingbooks/poofbook.htm)