Reading

Below are a range of reading and literacy activities for students to complete. It is important that student are reading each day and recording in their reading log.

To support their reading, ask comprehension questions to further their understanding of the text they read.

Comprehension question examples:

Can you tell me what happened in the story?
Can you describe the main character?
Do you like the main character? Why or why not?
If you could give the story a different ending what would it be?
What was the problem in the story? How was the problem solved?
Could this story happen in real life? Why or why not?
Did you enjoy this story? Why or why not?
Can you find some adjectives in this story?
What is the setting of this story?
Is this a fiction or non-fiction text? How do you know ?

Predicting

Before reading a book, STOP and look at the front cover. Look at the text clues (front cover, title and pictures) and think to yourself:

"What is going to happen in this book?"

You can say or write your prediction using the sentence starter:

I predict ................ because......

For a challenge if reading a chapter book, stop at each chapter and make a prediction. At the end of the chapter, stop and check to see if you were correct or not.

Below are a range of front covers if you are stuck for ideas. There are also a lot of read-aloud stories located on Youtube.

Retell

We can retell a story by identifying the important information and events. This includes the:

Setting
Characters
Problem
Main events, including the beginning, middle and end
Solution

After reading a text, you can retell the story by talking, drawing or writing. Or if you like, you could watch these read aloud stories...

The Very Cranky Bear

We Don't Eat Our Classmates

The Gingerbread Man

How To Catch a Mermaid

Text Connections

We can make connections to what we are reading. We can make connections to ourselves, for example when reading 'The Gingerbread Man' we could make a connection to a time when we baked and could smell cookies baking in the oven.

We can also make connections to other texts, which include tv, movies, books and advertisements. We could be reading 'Theodore the Unsure' and make a connection to the Lion King, as the settings are similar, and the main characters are both lions.

During and after reading, see if you can make some text connections using the following sentence starters.

Text -to- self sentence starter

This part of the book (draw or write the part of the book that you made a connection to)

Reminds me of (draw or write down the connection to your self you made)

Text -to- Text sentence starter

This part of the book (draw or write the part of the book that you made a connection to)

Reminds me of (draw or write down the other text you make a connection to and why)

Codes Hunt

Before, during or after reading, can you search for a particular code? How often can you find it at the start of a word? What about at the end of a word?

Challenge - can you find 2, 3 and 4 letter codes too? Remember to sew them together when you are writing them down.

Spelling Practise

Choose some words to practise spelling. You could find these words in books you read. Try some of these word work strategies...

How many letters in each word? eg. home= 4
Write a word out using 'pyramid spelling'
Use a dictionary to find the meaning of the word
Can you write the word in a sentence?
Write your 5 words in alphabetical order

Text Features

We can use text features to identify if the text is Fiction or Nonfiction. Nonfiction texts tell us information. Nonfiction text features help us understand what we are reading.

If you have nonfiction books at home, you can go on a 'Nonfiction Text Feature Scavenger Hunt' to find what features are used in your book.

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