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All independent reading activities need to be literacy based and can be individual or group tasks.
All independent reading activities need to be literacy based and can be individual or group tasks.
Years 1-4
Years 1-4
- Independent reading from reading boxes or the class library
- Repeated reading of guided reading book
- Alphabet and spelling games/activities:
- practising high-frequency words*
- hearing phonemes*
- sorting letters and words*
- word family houses*
- rhyming words*
- matching initial consonants/blends and digraphs*
- blend and digraph bingo*
- suffixes*
- compound words*
- whiteboard activity*
- alphabet sequence*
- singular and plural*
- sound patterns*
- Arranging sentence strips or pictures sequentially
- Reading and acting in a play
- Using the listening centre (listening to audio versions of books. These can be found on this website.)
- Buddy reading (reading in pairs, sharing a big book, poems or song charts)
- Independent writing
- Following instructions to complete a task (Make and Do)
- Following up activities from a text read during guided reading
- Computer games: Studyladder, Sunshine Online
- Handwriting cards
- Oral Language Learning Centre:*
- puppets,
- telephones,
- shop,
- listening post,
- drama box,
- a box of photographs (on cards) for students to talk about with a partner.
- Poetry Centre*
- Writing Centre*
*see pages 59-65 of Lighting the Literacy Fire by Jill Eggleton.
Years 5-8
Years 5-8
- Independent reading
- Repeated reading of guided reading book
- More advanced spelling games/activities
- Reading and acting in a play
- Buddy reading (reading in pairs, sharing a big book, poems or song charts)
- Independent writing
- Following instructions to complete a task (Make and Do)
- Following up activities from a text read during guided reading
- Reciprocal reading
- Literature circles
- Current Event tasks
- Chapter Chat tasks (if participating in Chapter Chat)
- Handwriting cards
- Inquiry work: research
- Before reading activities: e.g., filling in KWL charts
- Vocabulary building tasks (cloze activities, semantic webs, sorting and categorising words from familiar texts, exploring derivatives of words)
resources
resources
This resource contains many ideas for purposeful reading responses to texts. These activities can be done individually or collaboratively following any text.
This can be found in the Teacher Resource area.
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