Activities That Build Confident Readers and Writers
This book presents a collection of classroom-tested teaching strategies and student activities to promote reading and generate literature responses in numerous formats. This resource provides the strategies and activities students need to increase their fluency while they become confident readers who enjoy reading. Includes dozens of activities that help students strengthen comprehension by focusing on key elements such as accessing prior knowledge, categorization, characterization, identifying the main character, prediction, retelling, and sequencing. All activities are easily adaptable to any literature selection. 64 pages.
Promote independent reading and encourage students to generate literature responses in a variety of exciting formats using the teaching strategies and student activities in Responding to Literature 3-6. Stimulate students' critical thinking and understanding of basic story elements-characterization, plot summary, setting, vocabulary development-with activities designed to build their confidence in reading and writing while improving their comprehensive skills. Best of all, the materials in this resource can be used with any literature selection.
Use the innovative ideas and activities to encourage higher-level thinking, develop students' decision-making and evaluative skills, and increase their fluency in reading and writing. Students of all ability levels will enjoy and benefit from these materials. Each activity includes step-by-step directions, a ready-to-use student reproducible, and an extension idea. Provide your students with tools to become more confident readers and writers and you will give them an even greater gift: a lifelong love of reading!
